On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 04:17:06PM +1100, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > All of them have nice big buttons and share a simple layout. The FR's > > screen is big enough even in portrait mode to accommodate a keyboard > > like this. The Illume keyboard, as excellent as it is (thanks Raster!!), > > is fiddly to use without a stylus. I would like to not have to use a > > stylus to compose notes/emails/sms. For terminal use (and using VI) a > > more complete k/b is of course justified, but for everyday use we need a > > nice finger keyboard. > > with dictionary correction the illume keyboard (and the qtopia one) in normal > plain qwerty for writing notes and emails and sms's work just great - i've > used > them walking down the street and i can type better on it than i can on my rokr > e6 WITH a stylus. in fact my n800 with a landscape 4.3" screen is almost > equivalent in usability (it doesnt dictionary correct).
I agree, I used it today to take notes at a meeting. In vi :) Rui -- Keep the Lasagna flying! Today is Sweetmorn, the 6th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3175 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community