Am 15.03.2012 um 13:29 schrieb Martin Jansa: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 03:09:09PM +0400, Gennady Kupava wrote: >> Hi, Nicolaus, >> >> Actually detached keyboard is almost useless for phone. It is not >> possible to use it any conditions expect then phone lays on some surface >> and you not holding it. >> >> This is because if you using one hand to hold phone, you have one one >> hand free. Holding and using keyboard with one hand is not possible. >> >> Before implementing such detached keyboard, buy bluetooth one in shop >> and try it - you'll find it completely useless :) > > I fully agree on this, I have bought smaller keyboard (with USB cable) > for freerunner and I don't use it very much, because as you said it's > not really usable e.g. while sitting in train and trying to balance > phone + keyboard on your lap. So in trains I'm using n900 only and > om-gta02 is sitting at home always connected to desktop (with real > keyboard). > >> So, keyboard on phone should be build-in and usable... and i don't know >> how should look something better than keyboard on n900. > > I don't have hands-on experience but keyboard on pictures of Motorola Droid 4 > looks even better then n900 keyboard, mostly because of extra row. > > http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/10/motorola-droid-4-review/
Yes, but do you think it does help to dream about the best keyboards made by (formerly?) big companies? They will most likely not do anything for our GTA02/04. So we have to roll up our own sleeves... >> If gta04 have hw keyboard, i buy it immediately as a every-day phone. >> Linux has excellent set of command-line tools and it's a crime not to >> have a hw keyboard on linux device. > > Agreed, that's why I also prefer more common layout with enough keys to > map also '/', '|' etc. somewhere close to fingers. That appears to be easily done when printing key caps at Shapeways and making the keymap ourselves (open source). Nikolaus _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
