-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lorn Potter wrote: > Just hold down on the letter you want to select. You will see a round > 'spy glass' thing pop up with your letter.
This is all well and good, but it's for all intents and purposes totally useless in practical application - typing anything remotely long or complex (examples: My mail server address, somebody's surname, a phone number, an email address, a street/suburb name, GPS coordinates) takes an *inordinate* amount of time - just try typing out your postal address using that method - you'll soon find that you're developing a powerful urge to stab yourself in the eyeballs with a rusty fork... ;) If typing your postal address doesn't do it, see how long it takes you to type the following (spelling is important!): "yo doodz wots up? im sendin this sms cuz i cbf typin an email you ya, and cuz i wanna demo jus how goddamn awful it is to type wen it takes 3 secs for each bluddy letta. Got ne rusty forks lyin round?" How long does it take you to type 'antidisestablishmentarianism' using this method? Don't forget to also include in this figure the time it takes to type "antidisestablishmentarianism", only to discover that it's not in the dictionary, then delete that, then type it out letter-by-letter. For comparison, here are some figures I just worked out, using a stopwatch to time myself typing 'antidisestablishmentarianism': * My PC - Standard US 101-key IBM Model M qwerty Keyboard - 6.18 seconds * My Ipaq - HP Ipaq 6515 with built-in mini-qwerty keyboard - 12.35 Seconds * FreeRunner running QT extended, using 'predictive keyboard': 81.95 Seconds (almost a minute and a half!) I can't think of a more dramatic way to point out how slow this method is. Obviously I don't expect it to match the Ipaq, but more than 6 times slower than the Ipaq is abysmal. It shouldn't take a minute and a half to type one word. The simple and easy solution is as I noted before: the predictive text should always offer you exactly what you type - if I type "pwned", I want to see "pwned" and "owned" in the word list, regardless of whether "pwned" is in the dictionary. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJvahwFbVnQRV3OEYRAq6mAJ0To58Vc54Hru3M1ZKAn6i+xlmDtACfQ570 9m2TNlW85XJ/lAVLcLF0uLQ= =25K7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community