Since the release of iPhone and its tangible user interface, the other smartphone makers have gotten the message. It is about time to rethink and reengineer their user interface.

While other smartphones are complicated and difficult to use, iPhone’s user interface was proving that it was not supposed to be that way.

Rivals, including Microsoft, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and the Nokia-led Symbian group of developers, have all recently announced investments and features to overhaul their phones user interface and experience. So we will see and experience better and easy to use user interface in the near future. It is about time too.

The major negative side of this overhaul is the possibility of cost raising. More features usually leads to higher prices.

Olga Kharif wrote more in depth about this issue in BusinessWeek.

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 Print Posted by Boy Avianto on October 22nd, 2007