I have a Kindle but I prefer to read print books because I find the constant
scrolling on a tiny screen a little annoying, and somehow using a device feels like work to me.
Reading SMS and emails is a neat addition but most people will find
scrolling on the tiny screen in horizontal mode a bit fiddly considering that the screen height is little more than the diameter of the average finger.
Not exact matches
A responsive website should look good
on both a large
screen laptop and a
tiny smartphone
screen, the latter with a minimum of
scrolling and resizing.
Worse, the watch's interface requires learning a mental map of the
tiny watch
screens laid out like an inverted T. Recent notifications appear as a vertical
scrolling list, but «glances» (display
screens for stocks, weather, battery charge, steps taken and so
on) are arranged horizontally.
Obviously a man of refined aesthetics, Day - Lewis undoubtedly knows that there are things we've lost in our rush toward the future of mobile communication — the slow, considered composition involved with spending five minutes texting «OK, see u at 9,» the greater news article absorption that comes from
scrolling down
tiny squares of text
on a one - inch
screen, and, most of all, the immense satisfaction that comes from ending a call with the snap of plastic keyboard meeting plastic
screen.
That means your eyes can not be staring at a
tiny text
screen, watching you
scroll through status updates
on your smart phone, or even staring at the GPS device that will likely just «tell» you where to turn.
Some of this sounds downright silly when you say it out loud — replying to emoji by drawing
on the
screen, swiping
on a teeny
tiny virtual keyboard when voice alone is insufficient, or
scrolling through the Play Store
on your wrist in search of new apps.