Giles Jones writes: >Florent THIERY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > >> Interesting blog post when you consider the custom cases possibility: >> >> http://trevors-trinkets.blogspot.com/2007/07/five-finger-keyboards.html > >Always better sticking with the convention 0-9 abc def type keyboard. Anything >unconventional will split people 50:50, half will love it (mostly geeks), half >won't. > >Besides, typing numbers by holding down multiple keys just seems silly. > >KISS = Keep it simple stupid. > >I'd much sooner see OLED buttons where the text can change to suit the task.
There's a *lot* of prior art in chord keyboards (as they're normally called), and they work really well in a lot of environments. I suspect I might like five nicely-spaced buttons so I could do one-handed typing on the phone. _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
