Comments on: iPod Slide Concept Design http://www.gearfuse.com/ipod-slide-concept-design/ Technology, Science, Culture. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:49:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 By: vga cable http://www.gearfuse.com/ipod-slide-concept-design/comment-page-1/#comment-212381 vga cable Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:56:31 +0000 http://www.gearfuse.com/?p=15843#comment-212381 I’d never use an iPod that I had to slide open every time I wanted to use it. That’s too inconvenient. That’s why no Apple iPod (or any other media player) has ever required it to be opened and closed, either by sliding or a hinged cover. An alternate approach would be to make the click-wheel a virtual one, on an LCD covering the face of the unit. When someone touch operates the click-wheel it works normally. But if the user presses and holds any where on the face of the unit the menu-driven interface appears. When a selection is made it plays. The user can revert to the lick-wheel interface again by press and holding for 2 seconds. I’d never use an iPod that I had to slide open every time I wanted to use it. That’s too inconvenient. That’s why no Apple iPod (or any other media player) has ever required it to be opened and closed, either by sliding or a hinged cover.

An alternate approach would be to make the click-wheel a virtual one, on an LCD covering the face of the unit. When someone touch operates the click-wheel it works normally. But if the user presses and holds any where on the face of the unit the menu-driven interface appears. When a selection is made it plays. The user can revert to the lick-wheel interface again by press and holding for 2 seconds.

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