There are lots of smartphones nowadays from many different brands such as Apple ( the most famous one) then Samsung, Sony, HTC etc. The difference between iPhone and Samsung is that one has wider screen and one has smaller screen but some people prefer to have perfect screen size for their "one-hand" but some want to have big screen in order to see a bigger things in their phone, its up to them and its their choice, but one thing that someone in the internet had concern about is the shortcuts.
For the shortcuts in Samsung, you can just swipe the screen at the top part of the screen, it'll show every shortcuts such as WiFi, airplane mode, Profile like sounds and more; Not only Samsung have those shortcuts, even Sony has it. Basically only iPhone doesn't and that is the biggest problem for Apple. For iPhone users they have to go to setting and set everything such as profile, sound, airplane mode, WiFi everything, basically there are really less shortcuts. In the video above it shows some concept iOS7 which include more shortcuts (not only iPhone but so do the iPads). In the video it shows many shortcuts on the lock screen basically, without swiping the "slide to unlock", you can just click the shortcut for camera at the bottom right and you could change into other shortcuts, not just camera. And also at the top of the screen. (look at the picture below).
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| Just by clicking the camera icon, you can change/switch your shortcut to something else too such as phone calling etc. |
Other than those shortcut in the lock screen, there are also other shortcuts for you to open an app without clicking "Into" the app itself. Example music, when you're playing music, you don't want to click in and click stop or whatever. In the picture below it shows that just by double click the music itself, it'll show up a shortcut for you to either stop, play, next etc to your music. Not only music but also calenders, app store (update apps), and also quick reply. When I say quick reply it means that whenever there's a message popped up on the screen, not sliding to open the app and answer anymore but immediately pop up a place for you to just answer and just send back. (look a the pictures below).
Another shortcuts will be for the setting. The old style of setting is like, you have to click setting and it'll show a list of stuff that you want to adjust with small icons, but the new one would be what you see in the picture below. The icon became bigger, and you can exit easily.
Last shortcut would be "double click" the button on the phone. When you double click it, you can view all the apps and album email whatever is opened. Before when you double click it it'll show you all the things you opened too but this time it'll show you with a big picture as you can see in the picture below again. :) These shortcuts are pretty cool, easy and quick ! ;)
All smartphones should have shortcuts that is easy for the users to adjust whatever they want to change etc. Samsung and all other smartphones can go to the setting place just by swiping the screen, and it'll show those "main" settings that are mostly used such as Profile, sound, airplane, do not disturb, message etc. BUT not iOS. iOS got a shortcut only for camera at the lock screen, so now someone had made a concept of how might the iOS7 change. Probably lots of shortcuts as what you guys can see above (ex: view opened apps, quick reply, quick setting etc). You can set many things even before you swipe the "slide here to unlock". Basically, this article is talking about an idea of how might iOS 7 change in the future "with convenient shortcuts".
Advantages & Disadvantages:
It is good to have lots of shortcuts in the new iOS because all other smartphones or tablets had it already, why not iOS? And yes it is annoying to unlock your phone, click setting an find the icon that has airplane just change your phone to "airplane" mode. So yes it would be quicker and a lot more convenient to have those shortcuts!
Its disadvantage would be messy. When those shortcuts appeared in your iPhone or iPad because everything would be showing with big images as you can see in the picture or video above. So for those people who don't like big images, or icon they might think it as becoming very messy and not organize.
Question: I still have question for the part that says "quick reply" in the video. When there's a message popped up, it appeared a thing for you to write whatever you want to reply, but the problem is, they didn't even show what message did the other person had send to you; they just let you reply immediately -_- that's very weird.
Citation:
"Here Are Some Changes Apple Should Make To The IPhone's Software." Business Insider. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Apr. 2013. <http://www.businessinsider.com/here-are-some-changes-apple-should-make-to-the-iphones-software-2013-4>.
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