On 29 November 2012 02:03, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 64, I guess I've reached olde fartedom. But I need a smartphone for my > business, and bought my first, a Droid 2, a couple of years ago. I opted for > the android phone in part because, at the time, Verizon didn't support > iPhones, and because the Droid 2 had a slide out mini keyboard. At the store > I had tried typing on the screen of another android phone without keyboard > and found it nearly impossible. At first I used the slide out keyboard on the > D2, but it was cumbersome and slow. I eventually learned to manage fairly > well typing on the screen but frequently had to backtrack to correct > mistakes. A few weeks ago I became eligible for a phone upgrade, so I stopped > in at the Verizon store and tried several phones. I found that the iPhone 5 > was much easier to type on than any of the android phones. Don't know why, > but it's easier to hit the right letter on the touch screen. Now, I can buzz > along rather well, with a hunt and peck method and have found that I can even > manage the two thumb technique. I will probably continue to practice that. > Sending e-mail from the phone is important to my journalism work, so it's > worth the effort. Old fartedom has at least been delayed. MY HTC Android phone has a quick calibration routine which once undertaken reduces erroneous keystrokes markedly. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
