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Oh boy! iPhone 5? Hell no!

When one of my colleagues got his iPhone 5 on the same day Nexus 4 sold out within an hour in 3 countries, I thought I should at least a take a look at it. Knowing that I would obviously pull his leg when I find about the purchase, he didn't actually shout around showing his new phone. So when the news got to me, I asked for the phone and took a look at it. I was actually a bit surprised that he didn't flaunt the new phone and tell me why it 'is damn good'.

The build.

The very first impression as I held the phone in my hands, it felt pretty bad. It had a very strange form factor, like some sort of a racket for a weird ball game. The texture of the surface and the weight made it feel like some kinda plastic toy phone. The worst part was whenever I would keep it on the table, I would  struggle to lift it. I have to either slide it to the edge of the table, or lift it carefully since there is a high chance I could drop it. The edge is unergonomially thin and slippery. I could already see a lot of scratch on the rear side because of the sliding I guess. 

I could not get the idea behind the shape though. They say it is easy for your thumb to reach edge to edge (horizontally), as they haven't increased the width. Then what about the height? The screen size is specified by the diagonal length, so when the phone is 4" long with same width, the height has to shoot up considerably. It is too long, if I can't get to the notification centre with one hand, what's the bloody point? I think notification bar is more important, what if I get a notification while I am driving, cooking, or pooping? I have to use 1 hand!!

The 5th row

My Nexus has 4.65" display, but still I can reach every corner of the screen with one hand, and more importantly the build makes sure the phone doesn't just slip through your hands, the iPhone has a very slippery and "grip-less" shape that it tried to slip through many times. 

I tried the camera, and sound. Didn't see anything exceptional. (Nothing good/bad), the Nexus/Lumia800 was very much similar. So I went to try out iOS 6, nothing great there either. There were around 4-5 rows of apps, but something was wrong. The 5th row was empty in every screen. So, the much hyped super smooth back up and transfer wizard forgot the fact that the new phone had one extra row and they could actually fill it?

I tried some popular apps like Flipboard, Path etc, I didn't get the feeling of "extra space" in one single app I used. Rather I felt pixels have been shaved off the sides. Because all these apps had the more width and height (compared to my Nexus). So the '5th row' perk sounds ridiculous to me. 

I felt so disgusted and disappointed with the phone that I didn't even go further. Like opening Maps, Siri, browser etc. As I placed the phone on the table, I saw the iPhone 4S. After using iPhone 5, 4S looks a lot better. Looks decent, feels decent. And when I opened my Phone (Nexus), I felt like a king :) 

The most horrible part.

I came to know the phone cost close to $1000 (32GB). That made the phone look even more horrible. For the price I could buy a Nexus 4 ($349) + Surface ($499) and still gift my friend a Lumia 920($99). I will still be left with money to take a round trip to my home town. Or, I could buy an iPhone 4S($800) and half a dozen  lightning to 30-pin adapters, which I won't.

PS: I learnt this style of writing from popular bloggers Marco, Seigler, Gruber etc.

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Is the mouse dead?

According to Techcrunch writer MG Seigler it is, he has talked about it a couple times now, "The Mouse is Dead, I just Killed it, now can we move on?" and most recently his second article, "Still Think The Mouse Isn't Dead?"

"Others have argued about the ergonomics. No way touchscreen computers replace the more comfortable mouse-on-the-desktop paradigm, right? Those people aren’t thinking about this deeply enough. It’s not just about directly manipulating a screen via touch, it will be about using touch pads as well that reside on desktops. You know, like the Magic Trackpad."

I don't know about anyone else, but to only use a trackpad all day, everyday would drive me absolutely nuts. I'm writing this right now from my laptop which has a trackpad, it's slow, tedious and uncomfortable to use.

Seigler uses the new Windows 8 UI as one of his main arguments that the mouse will be going away soon, the problem is that the new UI is more targeted toward tablets and not desktop usage. When you are on a tablet and using Win 8 then yeah I agree, touch is king, but when you are at your desktop, most people will spend most of their time in normal Windows because that is where productivity will happen. Go into any corporate office and ask people if they could do their job on a touch screen device all day or if they could even technically do it, touch requires simplicity, productivity software often times needs to be very complex (this doesn't mean hard to use though).

People do very little productivity work through touch screen devices, it just doesn't work well, even on the iPad. Traditional mouse based software will exist for years, maybe even decades to come. So fine, the mouse is dead, but not for 15 to 20 years at a minimum.

He is right that mice will be needed for precision based activities, ironically the next viable replacement for precision is a stylus, something you can use as a compliment to a trackpad, something Apple has always scoffed at.