Holger Freyther wrote: > On Monday 18 August 2008 22:09:44 Daniel Benoy wrote: > >> I agree. I think the issue is that people don't realize it's a finger >> keyboard. I showed it to my friends at work and they said "That's really >> small!" and they laughed, having just bragged about their iphone.. and then >> I typed in their names in about 1 second each and it dawned on them that >> it's small on purpose. >> >> It's also not immediately evident that you can hold a letter and type words >> that aren't in the dictionary. >> >> Perhaps this calls for little tooltips for new users. > > Yes, that is the only downside of this keyboard. The gestures and features > are > not easy to discover. But besides that I can write SMS and names during a > ride with the public transportation (bus) easily.
There should be 'help' for the input method. There are only a few gestures to learn, and once you learn them, it's easy. Easier than learning to ride a bike, but being difficult to learn never stopped most people from learning to ride... :) -- Lorn 'ljp' Potter Software Engineer, Systems Group, Trolltech, a Nokia company _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
