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Originally Posted by Phillip Dyson
The decrease of hardware buttons and the increase in multi-touch and other such gestures does seem to put the "one-handed operation" in jeapardy.
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Why? That's only true if such gestures are required. On the iPhone, they're not.
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Can you browse efficiently on a device if the only way to zoom in and out is through multi-touch?
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I almost never zoom using the "pinch" maneuver. Apple (and Palm, and I presume Opera) added a "double-tap" which zooms to the column you're tapping on.
In general, I preferred buttons on WM, but I did notice end-users were very inconsistent in button use, especially on WM Pro devices with the touch screen. Many of them would tap the screen instead of, say, scrolling using the d-pad between buttons on the dialog and clicking the middle to "hit" the button.
--janak