On Saturday 08 September 2007 13:44, Thomas Gstädtner wrote: > Interesting concept, but I can't see an advantage to the standard numeric > keypads. > Maybe you can enlighten me? :)
Compared to the standard "444 for I, 7777 for S"-type of keypad, it's ease of learning/remembering the keystrokes (based on visual shapes of the letters, rather than arbitrarily splitting-up the alphabet). Maybe it's only me who has difficulty remembering those without looking at the keypad. Compared to predictive text input, it works with source-code, symbols, names, bash commands etc., i.e. anything that's not prose text. So for complex input, it might beat T9 because you don't need to change keyboards every time you want a symbol or a number. It also doesn't need a display like predictive text, since you don't need to display and choose between alternate completions. (hence the possibility of a completely transparent keyboard) I'll try adding a characters-per-minute to the page (or someone else could -- it's only javascript) _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
