We're going to run through the following tests to determine how long it takes to do certain tasks on the iPhone, for the sake of comparing it to other platforms. Make sure you check out Adam Lein's similar video using the Palm Treo 800w. Here are the tasks:
- Launching programs: email, contacts, calendar. Because of the iPhone's screen to screen animations, this task took much longer than the Treo 800w, actually, 6 times longer.
- Launching Google Maps from the home screen. Because the iPhone's home interface is iconic based, there is no digging for programs as there are on other smartphone platforms. And since you can move the icons to a desired location, you can place your mostly used programs on the first pane.
- Launching a Favorite. If you wanted to, you could make an entire home screen pane list all of your favorites because the iPhone lets you save websites to the home area. This makes it super easy and quick to launch favorite websites.
- Launching media player and playing a playlist. The home screen button can be programmed under the double click action to start iPod, go to Call Favorites, or go Home. Here I set it to go to the iPod, which made it easy to go to the media player from any program and quickly start a playlist.
- Adding a new contact. At times, the Contacts program can become slow and unresponsive. Also, entering people's named in the iPhone for the first time can be a slow process since the dictionary doesn't have the names yet.
- Emailing the contact. This was a pretty quick task -- the iPhone drew from the contact database so I didn't need to know John Doe's email address. Then, typing a message was fast with help from the iPhone's keyboard intelligence.
iPhone Results:
Test 1: open email, contacts, & calendar = 12 seconds
Test 2: open Google Maps = 1.5 seconds
Test 3: open a saved website favorite = 1.5 seconds
Test 4: find and play music from a specific artist = 8 seconds
Test 5: make a new contact with lots of info = 80 seconds
Test 6: send the contact an email = 26 seconds
Usability Speed Tests: Apple iPhone
We're going to run through the following tests to determine how long it takes to do certain tasks on the iPhone, for the sake of comparing it to other platforms. Make sure you check out Adam Lein's similar video using the Palm Treo 800w. Here are the tasks:
- Launching programs: email...
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