http://www.shy.am Game Programmer - http://shy.am Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:18:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 http://www.shy.am/2009/08/some-iphone-grievances/ http://www.shy.am/2009/08/some-iphone-grievances/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:05:32 +0000 shyam http://www.shy.am/?p=654 Overall, the iPhone is the best existing device for my needs, but of course it has it’s own faults. Below are a couple of the most irritating things (for me) about the iPhone. I have other unlisted issues with the device, but most of them are common complaints that you’ve probably read about somewhere else already.

• Screen Rotation Toggle – When trying to read something on my iPhone while lying at an odd angle in bed, it would be great to be able to disable the screen rotation. I wish there was a global option to disable this somewhere.
• Touch Screen Toggle – One case is when I am trying to read a long Wikipedia entry, or a long article in Safari. When scrolling [touch + drag] through a long page in Safari, such as a long Wikipedia entry, it is too easy to accidentally click on a link [touch]. This re-directs you to another page, or even opens a new browser window. This could easily be fixed in Safari by adding another button to the bottom (near the bookmarks) to toggle the tap gesture. It still doesn’t fix the problem on an application-wide level (I have the same issue when reading from the AP News app, or even Mail).

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