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After this year’s WOW factor nº1, and the more than 100.000 blogposts written on the device in less than a week, it’s pretty hard to come up with something that hasn’t been said yet on the iPhone. BTW: I love the way Steve is able to stir and shake a whole industry with another truly innovating product. Viva innovation! Besides all the good parts, there are definately more points to look into in detail: the keypad user experience, for example, and the habits of people using a phone to call and to text… I explain.

Watching the keynote of Steve Jobs on the iPhone, you can notice that Steve types his SMS text with one hand holding the phone in one hand and typing with one finger from the other - not doing this with a thumb holding the phone in one hand as we ususally do, or with 2 thumbs as most kids do over here; it’s a difference between smartphone and normal phone use that’s acceptable for the first but not for the latter.

Following Kelly’s one-hand interaction comment, and devices becoming more ubiquitous, there is still a lot to explore and test how people use phones while on the move doing many different things with the same device, in the street, on a train or in a car (forbidden over here in Europe, Kelly

Anyone having the ability of using speech recognition to command your phone and it’s applications? Especially in a car while driving… like getting to your contact list and make a connection. Max OS X has speech recognition integrated, but what and how people are really going to use the new devices? Habits are existing and are difficult to change, look at the mouse still on our side after all these years of invention, and for this to know, we still have to wait a couple of months…

As Yasmine is pointing out: “the forbidden fruit is tempting our senses, reenacting old or invented memories. Herein lies his latent success!“, even after this weeks’ excitement, there’s a lot still to tempt, and invent, and test… but please keep going, Steve!