So, who are they going to sue???
Giles Jones wrote:
On 30 Jul 2007, at 00:49, Nkoli wrote:
So, there I was pretending my phone has a touchscreen while I wait for
GTA02 when this idea popped into my head for a keyboard alternative. I
would very much like to hear thoughts. The design would remove the
onscreen keyboard completely and replace it with a Graffiti-like
interface that can recognize something as wide as a finger or as tiny
as a stylus. A couple of icons for a symbols list and other essentials
that the user may not want to write out (ex www., .com or greek
letters) will be all that's left of the keyboard. For the sake of
minimalism, the entire screen, excluding the very top or bottom where
the icons are, will be used as the input area. The app should be
activated or deactivated with one touch just like the current
keyboard. It would have to have some excellent text recognition as
well as a built in dictionary to suggest words, which should make up
for any holes in the text recognition. Also, a find as you write
feature will be handy for finding folders in the main menu, names in
the contact list or numbers in the logs, basically reducing scrolling
through areas that aren't primarily text based. The benefits of this
finger graffiti are that it has a learning curve of zero, eliminates
hunting and pecking so anyone can write quickly without needing to get
used to the onscreen keyboard. Oh yeah, it's as fast as you can move
your fingers and it can easily be done one handed. I have little
experience with programming and I hardly do more than write little
time saving scripts nowadays, so I honestly have no concept of what
such an app would take. What d'you guys think?
I don't think your finger will slide around the screen easily enough to
make it work. Even if it does it will leave lots of smears on the
screen. Also I don't see that typing is any slower than graffiti if the
keyboard is well designed. I just hate using handwriting recognition,
I've used it on Palm, Windows Mobile and use it now on my Nintendo DS.
If you're like me and don't write on paper all that much you get
irritated with having to write very perfectly on such devices, I'd also
say typing uses less effort and you won't get finger/joint ache if you
use it a lot.
I think the major problem with small screen size and text entry is
seeing the screen with your finger in the way.
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