"The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence."
Is the glass half empty or half full?
It isn't unusual to hear quotes or people telling me that you must be satisfied with what I have. I've been bombarded by these in my youth and ended up being generally satisfied with whatever I have and whatever idea, concept, suggestion and the like is thrown at me. But well, it also actually helps at times to be dissatisfied. It pays to see the glass half full to actually know what we need to fill the glass up.
When it comes to criticizing things, I sometimes end up being overly generous and miss some or even critical flaws of what I'm criticizing. There are things I overlook because I'm so used to it or don't see what can be improved further. I miss the need or want to change, to improve, to update, etc. It is because of the need or the want that drives us to get more out of things.
For years, we have settled for the current cell phone keypad layout. Personally, I never got used to this. I have a
Nokia 6800 and open it up whenever I type on my phone. Being a computer user, I'm already used to a QWERTY keyboard and so why not use it?
But should it just end there? Heck no. Actually it hasn't, since there have already been solutions that have been developed.
Mobience and
Nuance have
proposed alternative and faster means of text input compared to the current cell phone keypad layout. Mobience offers a "
universal text input solution" based
on the QWERTY keyboard. Meanwhile, Nuance offers another solution but is
based on voice recognition.
These two seem like promising solutions. I don't know if people will want to accept this change when they are already used to the current system, even though the new ones require less to no button presses.
So, is the glass half empty or half full? Typically, the optimistic "half full" is the way to go but I should not end there. It is only half full (or empty) and there is still a half that can be filled up. Why not fill it up?
