In the message dated: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:06:58 -0500,
The pithy ruminations from Brandon Allbery on
<Re: [lopsa-discuss] Android Tablet recommendation?> were:
=> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 1:13 AM, Morgan Blackthorne
=> <[email protected]>wrote:
=>
[SNIP!]
> > looking at the Kyocera Rise, as it's Android 4.0 based, and has
=> > significantly better specs than the Droid 2. And the physical keyboard
Very interesting. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.
=> > definitely helps a lot with responding to emails or SSHing into a node;
=> > touchscreen typing is often frustrating as I typo all over the place.
=> >
=>
I've got the Droid2 Global, selected because it has a physical keyboard,
is Android based, and is tri-band GSM.
After ~18 months, I'd say that it's merely "OK". The battery life is
marginal, the phone stability & performance have declined noticibly,
but it has held up very well physically, it was easy to root, and I like
the wide app selection.
[SNIP!]
=>
=> Some applications don't play well with the keyboard (most common failure
=> mode is that the Fn key doesn't work so you can't enter numbers or
=> symbols); this is thankfully uncommon. Also, it really wants to operate in
[SNIP!]
That's one of my major complaints. The requirement of a physical keyboard
was primarily driven by a need to use the phone for remote access, via
ssh. I use ConnectBot (and have tried several other ssh apps), and the
lack of non-alphanumeric hardware keys (pipe and brackets being most
noticible) is a serious problem.
Has anyone found a phone & ssh app for Android combination that provides
good hardware support for keyboard symbols?
Thanks,
Mark
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