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Packing strenuous tasks on tiny devices

Do you hesitate before upgrading your mobile phone, for dread of having to re-enter dozens of names and numbers with those tiny buttons? When checking out your new phone’s options, does gazing down at the scrunched screen give you a literal pain in the neck? Does it squish out a double chin? (It will eventually [...]

Do you hesitate before upgrading your mobile phone, for dread of having to re-enter dozens of names and numbers with those tiny buttons?

When checking out your new phone’s options, does gazing down at the scrunched screen give you a literal pain in the neck? Does it squish out a double chin? (It will eventually freeze in place, you know.)

Check out “Web interface to cellphone configuration” for a remedy and for the larger design principles at play.

Posted by Philip Haine on Saturday, February 4th, 2006 at 10:01 am.
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