Re: Text entry

2006-12-15 Thread Ben F-W
Ben wrote: Of course, the advantage of OpenMoko is that we wouldn't have to choose :-) I think I'd phrase it a bit differently: the advantage to me of OpenMoko is that we *get* to choose, rather than the manufacturer choosing for us! To drag the conversation back to text input briefly

Re: Text entry

2006-12-01 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
Dnia piątek, 1 grudnia 2006 02:20, David Ormsbee napisał: So when I first heard about this phone, I mocked up this idea: http://dave.hereticmonkey.com/musings/phone_keyboard.html Just my two cent idea. Criticisms/improvements are certainly welcome. Did you thought about languages other

Text entry

2006-11-30 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Thursday 30 November 2006 00:17, Alexander Steinert scribbled in crayon on the back of a kid's menu: What do you think about T9? Touching instead pressing keys could speed up the process noticable. And the user has the option to fit the geometry of keys to his fingers. Another option is

Re: Text entry

2006-11-30 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On 12/1/06 12:27 AM, Christopher Heiny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jumpx (aka Fitaly) already has an open source implementation at http://jumpx.sourceforge.net/ Though it is stylus oriented in the current implementation. I found this guy's idea quite interesting a while back:

Re: Text entry

2006-11-30 Thread David Ormsbee
Hi folks, So when I first heard about this phone, I mocked up this idea: http://dave.hereticmonkey.com/musings/phone_keyboard.html I had originally wanted to make something that would be compatible with phones that have physical buttons (hence the 3x4 grid), but I'm beginning to think that I