As many of you know, I purchased an HTC Mogul last summer, and have been enjoying tinkering with it in an attempt to overcome the general shittiness of Windows Mobile. Finally, someone has come up with something that turns the crapfest interface into something usable. Say how-do to Pointui.
Finally, something that doesn’t force me to use the stylus for absolutely every critical task. If you’re going to make a touchscreen phone, how about making the damned buttons big enough to actually push with your fingers? My 10-year-old nephew had trouble dialing properly with the damned thing, so it’s not just my ridiculous ham-hands. Also, I like how this thing scrolls up/down like one would expect, instead of the flight-stickesque inversion on the iPhone. Hopefully these guys keep skinning more and more functionality, because I’m extremely dissatisfied with the dialing interface on this thing. The next iteration of these things had better include touchscreen and a numerical keypad, because this touch-to-dial shit is infuriating, not to mention frightening. I don’t dare dial (alliteration!) in traffic, because I have to hold the device up in front of my face and focus as I carefully tap each button, cursing as I hit at least one or two wrong buttons each time. I can’t imagine that the rest of my road-faring contemporaries will be as safety conscious, which will make rush hour on the 405 all the more terrifying.
