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Upset

I went to AT&T an found out I bought my iPhone 4S 32 days ago. I’m two days too late to get in on the amazing Lumia 900. After test driving the Lumia 900 I felt officially bored of my phone. I mean yeah the iPhone is more or less perfect but I miss the fresh feeling of the UI. Like when iOS 4 first came out I was amazed but now iOS really does feel stale. The Lumia breathes innovation: large screen, WP7, and a fresh design (ok well I guess 2 years old with the 800). I think I just want to be enticed again. Siri is amazing and so is iCloud but this formula is getting stale.

The Blackberry Storm (first generation), I’m not posting this because I like the design per say, I actually loved the concept of this phone. A screen that clicks. To enable actions, the phone would recognize your touch capacitively, but required a physical punch with your finger to activate the command (Think MacBook trackpads). This ended up being a mess for the keyboard and well a lot of the phone’s UI for that matter. But it is a good concept, this could add for whole new layers in software. For example, maybe in the mail app when you touch a conversation it shows the message but when you click the conversation a pop-up would display enabling you to drag and flag/delete/markunread the message. Did you keep up with me or do I sound absolutely nuts? 

The Blackberry Storm (first generation), I’m not posting this because I like the design per say, I actually loved the concept of this phone. A screen that clicks. To enable actions, the phone would recognize your touch capacitively, but required a physical punch with your finger to activate the command (Think MacBook trackpads). This ended up being a mess for the keyboard and well a lot of the phone’s UI for that matter. But it is a good concept, this could add for whole new layers in software. For example, maybe in the mail app when you touch a conversation it shows the message but when you click the conversation a pop-up would display enabling you to drag and flag/delete/markunread the message. Did you keep up with me or do I sound absolutely nuts? 

iOS 5 does so much behind the scenes but what I want from iOS now is something completely fresh. I think Apple feels safe using an interface that everyone connects with instantly, but when things start to feel stale people are bound to want to get something new like that shiny new Galaxy S2 (Currently suffering this urge). Siri and the 8MP camera of the iPhone 4S are hardly reasons at all to upgrade for current iPhone 4 owners. There is nothing fresh design wise about the iPhone 4S, and I’m not even complaining about the look of the iPhone 4S, I just was really hoping for some kind of a new chassis.


To finish my rant, keeping things fresh and new are really important. I think it is safe to say tech design needs to refresh every year. Interfaces not so much but should have new features that define new versions of the OS from one another.

Noah Kuddus
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