It needs to be smaller. The Ocean is nearly an inch thick, far thicker than its current competition (the Sidekick Slide and LX). The nature of the triple-decker design might force the Ocean to always be on the thicker side of things, but my question is: does it need three layers?
Yes, the dual-sliding design is attention-getting, and sort of magical at first. But when I had an Ocean, I rarely used the keypad "layer." I slid it out that way to make and end calls, but I didn't press any of the buttons unless I was entering a new contact - which happens only occasionally. Personally, I think a touchscreen-over-slide-out-QWERTY design, a la Samsung Glyde, would be perfect. A touchscreen is fine for navigating the phone and dialing the occasional number - and, when you needed it, you could slide out a full keyboard. The phone could be thinner, the screen could be bigger, and it would get the feature du jour of feature phones these days: a touchscreen. That beats a clunky dual-slider any day.
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Mog @ Mar 29th 2008 8:16AM
It needs to be smaller. The Ocean is nearly an inch thick, far thicker than its current competition (the Sidekick Slide and LX). The nature of the triple-decker design might force the Ocean to always be on the thicker side of things, but my question is: does it need three layers?
Yes, the dual-sliding design is attention-getting, and sort of magical at first. But when I had an Ocean, I rarely used the keypad "layer." I slid it out that way to make and end calls, but I didn't press any of the buttons unless I was entering a new contact - which happens only occasionally. Personally, I think a touchscreen-over-slide-out-QWERTY design, a la Samsung Glyde, would be perfect. A touchscreen is fine for navigating the phone and dialing the occasional number - and, when you needed it, you could slide out a full keyboard. The phone could be thinner, the screen could be bigger, and it would get the feature du jour of feature phones these days: a touchscreen. That beats a clunky dual-slider any day.