I'm quite happy with an iPod touch which is essentially an iphone with no phone. There are two things that make precision on that tiny screen work. First when the placement of an i-beem cursor is needed you get your finger near the word and a magnifying glass opens just above or beside your finger letting you easily place the i-been between two letters. Second is the keyboard works along the long axis of the screen. (Turn the device from portrait to landscape and the image turns to follow.) When you press a letter of course your finger covers a couple of the keys but the key you are pressing is enlarged and appears clearly off to the side of your finger. The iPad also has a doc and with the dock supports a full size keyboard. They both also support bluetooth and so I assume bluetooth keyboard and mouse support is possible although I have never checked to see if it is.
On May 12, 2010, at 9:20 AM, Bianca Gibson wrote: > As well as meeting apples requirements, an issue with a straight port > is that it must be usable with a touch screen. Assuming that, like the > iPod touch (yuck) that it's just a big version of, it does not come > with a stylus, most users won't be using one. The sheer imprecision of > fingers has the potential to cause sever problems with the menus. I > don't fancy trying to use my touch screen calculator with a very > similar menu system without the stylus. I would get infuriated, and > I'd imagine it would be the same on an iPad. The interface would need > work. Captain Nice cptn.n...@gmail.com "I love my computer, because my friends live in it!" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org
