On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 1:34 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > => 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. >
As I mentioned later, ConnectBot is not one of the apps with problems. An earlier (non-Android) phone with keyboard that I had used didn't handle the keyboard correctly with any Java midlets; that was a showstopper, and a large part of why I ditched it for the Rise. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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