From: John Charlton (johncharlton_at_mac.com)
Date: Fri Jul 23 2004 - 06:28:36 PDT
One interesting thing is that the interface has been designed for two
thumbs, including recognizing gestures like simultaneous presses. They
didn't redesign the keyboard though (which is in alphabetic order) to
put the most used keys in the most convenient places.
On that note, I wonder why all these PDA people are so keen on full
QWERTY keyboards. For short messages or even medium messages (and who'd
want to do long ones on a small device) the predictive text on my phone
is really very handy, and only needs twelve keys. For thumb typing it's
a lot less hunt and peck.
Now if they used this:
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/
I'd be /much/ more interested!
On Jul 23, 2004, at 3:30 AM, mmedina_at_selena.com.fr wrote:
> Looks like I missed this thread, but what is the fuss with this? *I*
> tap my
> Newton's screen with my fingertip, when the stylus is not at hand ;-)
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