Linked List: January 9, 2010

Saturday, 9 January 2010

Touchscreen Accuracy Analysis 

The iPhone’s is best. HTC’s are good. The Motorola Droid’s seems wacko.

Boy Genius on Android 

Boy Genius:

Other issues that I can’t live with day to day? How do I copy text from non-editable field like an email, webpage, or SMS, or even a 3rd party application? Oh, I can’t. Say what you want about the iPhone not having copy and paste for two years — a joke — it’s the single best implementation on the planet for a smartphone and Google’s approach is almost as bad as RIM’s with the Storm-series.

It’s not just the iPhone’s interface for copy-and-paste; it’s also the interface for selecting text and pictures before you can copy them. I’d say it’s one of the nicest and most thoughtful UI designs I have ever seen.

Natural-Born Product Category Fillers 

The Macalope on Microsoft:

They’ve already used up surface, tablet, and slate. They’re running out of flat things.