Re: [Orgmode] Re: suggestions of Android smartphones

2010-04-20 Thread Daniel Martins
2010/4/19 Matthew Jones m...@matburt.net: Maybe I misunderstood what you meant about the swipe feature.   There is a keyboard called Swype which is fairly overrated. Sorry for the misspelling and confusion! I can't comment on how well or if a bluetooth keyboard would work... I think if I

Re: [Orgmode] Re: suggestions of Android smartphones

2010-04-20 Thread Sven Bretfeld
Matthew Jones m...@matburt.net writes: ConnectBot seems to be an option as well (when you have connection, of course!) Sven, you seem quite happy with a virtual keyboard. Am I right? I wouldn't write a book with it. But I wrote some paragraphs of articles and do my Gnus stuff

[Orgmode] Re: suggestions of Android smartphones

2010-04-19 Thread Richard Riley
Eric S Fraga ucec...@ucl.ac.uk writes: On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:07:32 -0300, Daniel Martins daniel...@gmail.com wrote: --- resending with a proper title --- Matthew, Just a suggestion for newbies. Could you generate a video of MobileOrg Android similar to those of the MobileOrg

Re: [Orgmode] Re: suggestions of Android smartphones

2010-04-19 Thread Daniel Martins
The device I was tantalized to buy was the Motorola Quench maybe mainly for Swipe feature http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWpqsDnXIOY (at about 1:00) or maybe for the price (in Brazil is about 500 USD while the Milestone is about 780 USD. I know both are outrageous prices in American or

Re: [Orgmode] Re: suggestions of Android smartphones

2010-04-19 Thread Matthew Jones
I used swype for about 2 days on my droid before getting rid of it... it's a good concept that needs be iterated on. Trying to use emacs from any of the Android shells is borderline impossible... unless you have a full keyboard to hook up to your Android phone then I would say you should rule out

Re: [Orgmode] Re: suggestions of Android smartphones

2010-04-19 Thread Daniel Martins
2010/4/19 Matthew Jones m...@matburt.net: I used swype for about 2 days on my droid before getting rid of it... it's a good concept that needs be iterated on. I could not follow your comment here Trying to use emacs from any of the Android shells is borderline impossible... unless you have

Re: [Orgmode] Re: suggestions of Android smartphones

2010-04-19 Thread Daniel Martins
Just to comment that I am in the same situation/expectation as Eric. I entered in the buy mode and despite my frustation with the phone company procedures I perceived that buy mode is a major mode. Daniel 2010/4/19 Eric S Fraga ucec...@ucl.ac.uk: On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:50:40 -0400, Matthew

Re: [Orgmode] Re: suggestions of Android smartphones

2010-04-19 Thread Matthew Jones
Maybe I misunderstood what you meant about the swipe feature. There is a keyboard called Swype which is fairly overrated. I can't comment on how well or if a bluetooth keyboard would work... I think if I were going to go to the trouble of carrying around a keyboard I would rather just carry my