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Originally Posted by neodorian
Agree. It's a lot easier and the whole cover flow thing is getting kind of overused Still it's a neat looking app and I'm sure plenty of people will get use out of it. For now I'm sticking with Mobile Shell too.
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Hi guys. Just a quick clue (if it helps).
Contacts are kept sorted, exactly as in your text-only contact list: so knowing if you have to scroll forward or backward to reach a given contact should be just as intuitive, whatever the number of contacts you are dealing with.
While scrolling (when contact names wouldn't be readable), there's an index-tracking mechanism that tells you where you are in the list. This can be set to reflect the instantaneous letter/position in the list, or the letter/position where scrolling will stop (you can alter this setting in the Motion Control dialog box).
So if you overshoot, you have immediate feedback of where you are, and you can correct easily (once again exactly as when you are scrolling a simple list of names).
You can jump instantly to any letter/position by pressing the corresponding letter on your thumbboard (or via the software input panel). So no matter how many contact are in the list, you can jump around easily (exactly as in a text-only list).
Because of all this, even if you add contacts that don't have a photo, you will still be able to find them easily at their alphabetical position in the contact list. Exactly as when you are dealing with a text-only contact list.
Of course, if contacts have a photo (or icon) they get even much easier to "spot".
We gave a lot of thought to such features, because we didn't really mean this to be just another photo dialer or FAVES app, that can only cope with handful of contacts (and if you add more than that you get "lost").
Our idea was to provide the same kind of indexing, sorting and navigation of a traditional text-only contact list, and combine it with the easy of use and intuitiveness of visual interface.
Maybe we didn't succeed. Or maybe our product description is not good enough.
Cheers.