mobile phone use.

As a mobile phone, or smartphone, is the most common form of communication carried by almost everyone, be for business or pleasure they are everywhere.

With handsets becoming increasingly more gadget filled with cameras, gaming, sat nav and such. It can lead to an increase need of isolating yourself to the screen or display on the phone itself. This is whats given me the idea to expand on incorporating an older form of communication which is relativly overlooked in the current generation.

The use of voice recognition is the direction mobile phones should be approaching, where the user could interact with a device without having to lose concentration on waht they are doing. As it stands most phone devices are more developed on GUI and how a person would interact with its various menus and such.

Text messaging is a good example of breaking a users concentration, the widely popular text messaging is incorporated on every handset available but it also is subject to the design of the GUI. This does not seem that much of a burden for a user to write and send one but it can be time consuming and/or for some, short of a challenge.

The use of alphanumeric keypad is to many an unnatural way of typing, moving away from the qwerty keyboard. Although the full kayboard can be found on certain smartphones such as the blackberry range, this does not cover alot of other brands of phone. When a user first uses the phone the idea of multiple tapping of buttons to create words can seem alien. Now if that user started writing a message without looking at their phone, without practice to relate the alphabet on the corresponding keys and "feeling" the right ones to press, it is difficult if not near impossible to complete a message.

This is a danger hazard as i mentioned earlier the idea of a "mobile" is for the mobility, the use of anytime, anywhere.

What if morse code could be incorporated into these handsets ...