Among the legions of new iPhone consumers, I personally know at least five people who will never buy the iPhone due to what some gadget mavens refer to as "fat finger syndrome." For these unlucky souls, no amount of maneuvering will ever make the glorious touchscreen of the iPhone work for them. In a more advanced, egalitarian world these iPhone-less citizens would have the option of purchasing an assistive mechanism called Dancing Fingers.
Designed by Beijing, China native Alfred Chu, the concept device would fit snugly onto your index and middle fingers, thus allowing your pudgy digits to begin dancing across the soon to be ubiquitous touchscreens affording access to the digital wonders of our time. Alas, for now fat finger syndrome remains the last iPhone barrier to mass consumption.
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By quine at 11:30 AM ON 07/15/08
There is at least ONE MORE reason not to buy an iPhone... NO REPLACEABLE BATTERY! I've been using hand-held communications devices for decades (amateur radio). I will NEVER purchase a communications device for which I cannot carry and use spare batteries! Rechargeable batteries have only so many discharge/charge cycles, and some fail much earlier than they should. Unless you are sending a device on a one-way mission somewhere, there is no excuse for engineering a product without a replaceable battery.
By Devil's10 at 5:26 PM ON 07/18/08
If you go back enough decades mobile devices required batteries too big to build in and quality was too variable from the gitgo. If you are going to deny yourself ownership of a phone as fun as my 3G iPhone because the battery will wear out some day you probably should avoid smart phones all together. There's always something that can fail in the field. and replaceable parts disappeared just after hams abandoned AM for SSB back in the mid 60's (when I was already an Amateur Extra). For my iPhone I have a little booster pack for if I think I'm going to be away from a charging source for more than a day...and it Does take batteries. Adapt, improvise, overcome.