Comments on: How your Apple iPhone could save you from movie murderers http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/03/how_your_apple_iphone_could_save_you_from_movie_murderers.html Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:14:00 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/03/how_your_apple_iphone_could_save_you_from_movie_murderers.html/comment-page-1#comment-218772 Mike Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:31:59 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2008/03/how_your_apple_iphone_could_save_you_from_movie_murderers.html#comment-218772 Aside from a rather restricted user-case (no doubt inspired by sleep deprivation and too much cheese before bed), this is a real user issue. I was on a train doing 90MPH last week, and a guy on the *other side of the carriage* was composing an email on what might have been a BB Pearl. I could hear each key click - and this wasn't a software click, but a hardware one. No way could it be used surreptitiously, let alone politely in public. The N95 is quite loud, the E61i very quiet. Haptic feedback is important - Nokia's wee vibrate on power on is very reassuring - but audibile feedback is just a pain. BTW Ewan, the answer to your Home Button blues is the iPhone app 'Dock' (find it in Installer). It puts a tiny sunrise in the bottom right corner, which when pressed and dragged diagonally to the top left, opens an arc of all available apps, sorted alphabetically. You drag your finger up or down and the apps bubble up and back down just like Dock on a mac does. Very, very nice, and utterly silent too. £0.02 /m Aside from a rather restricted user-case (no doubt inspired by sleep deprivation and too much cheese before bed), this is a real user issue.

I was on a train doing 90MPH last week, and a guy on the *other side of the carriage* was composing an email on what might have been a BB Pearl. I could hear each key click – and this wasn’t a software click, but a hardware one.

No way could it be used surreptitiously, let alone politely in public.

The N95 is quite loud, the E61i very quiet. Haptic feedback is important – Nokia’s wee vibrate on power on is very reassuring – but audibile feedback is just a pain.

BTW Ewan, the answer to your Home Button blues is the iPhone app ‘Dock’ (find it in Installer). It puts a tiny sunrise in the bottom right corner, which when pressed and dragged diagonally to the top left, opens an arc of all available apps, sorted alphabetically. You drag your finger up or down and the apps bubble up and back down just like Dock on a mac does. Very, very nice, and utterly silent too.

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