Mine will do that if I am in a rush and don't put my thumb on it exactly or my thumb moves upward.<br><br>but then I just do it again and zip! It's unlocked.<br><br><br><br>my photos

I had a chance to try Marg's new iPhone and did notice the unlock slider requires a different effort than my iPod touch. It's not as easy as I would have thought, requiring a more pronounced and definitive movement.<br><br>- alec -

Well<br>Giving that the iPhone would look like a 2 handed phone because you hold the phone in one hand and touch the screen with the other hand.<br><br>Now<br>Watching executives with a BlackBerry or BlueBerry or StrawBerry or whatever - fumbling with the buttons with one hand or two hands makes them look like frigging CLOWNS. <-- Gheee takes you that long to make a multiple conference call ??<br><br>Anyway<br>With the right hands , I am sure a person can make the iPhone a one handed device. I am sure once I buy one my "thumb" would learn the way.<br><br>

.. since Marge's phone does it too.<br><br>You describe it well ... and that deliberate action can take longer than doing it with the other index finger.<br>Interesting. Perhaps a cheaper screen ... since the last one was German. ;)<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

I don't have any problem. I guess it takes a woman's touch. <br><br>

[color:blue]I am sure a person can make the iPhone a one handed device</font color=blue><br><br>no, I don't think so.<br><br>One-handed texting is impossible. Katrina, who like most kids her age can write an SMS without even looking, was completely stumped with the iPhone. You MUST look at the screen, you do NOT have tactile feedback, and - quite frankly - I find a querty lay-out pretty silly in that context. It isn't as though you could ever touch-type. ;)<br><br>But as a two-handed device, it does have some nice points. I find writing notes - deliberately, unhurriedly - quite okay, which makes the lack of copy-paste that much more regrettable. A better word processor would make sense.<br><br>And, of course, a spread-sheet as well .... heck, I had those ten years ago on my Palms.<br><br>It'll come, I guess<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

"I don't have any problem. I guess it takes a woman's touch."<br><br>You haven't owned an iPod touch. They're somewhat easier to unlock, in that the initial motion of sliding the lock part way over with enough speed will allow "momentum" to take it the rest of the way. Ergo the ease of one handed unlocking - the thumb could easily handle it. I recall the first generation iPhone was the same. This new iPhone is definitely different in this process.<br><br>- alec -

<br>[color:blue]This new iPhone is definitely different in this process.<br></font color=blue><br><br>yes, it has a rubber-band effect pulling the slider back into the starting position. You really have to overcome kind of a resistance, to get it over. With the thumb, you need to be slow and deliberate.<br><br><br><br><br>

Exactly! The rubber-band analogy is right on the money.<br><br>- alec -

I still say no big deal. I can easily unlock holding in my left hand and using left thumb to unlock. I have strong thumbs. <br><br>