Which I suggest proves my point -- the market will be the kids who text
with their eyes closed; if it doesn't work for them, it won't work.
As for a desert afternoon or a Rocky Mountain evening, the kids don't
mind that sort of stuff. We "old people," as my 9-y-o granddaughter
refers to us, like what we're comfortable with -- cold beer, warm
companionship, paper newsprint, and a real keyboard.
Craig Froehle wrote:
> I read a review somewhere from a guy who had over an hour of hands-on
> time with the iPhone and he found the on-screen keyboard to be very
> unresponsive and totally unsuitable for thumb-typing. he said the
> most effective way was typing with one's index finger just like in the
> videos (a la hunt and peck, literally). Sounds awful to me.
>
> On 25 Jun 2007 19:43:00 -0600, daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Good point about texting -- I wonder how fast or accurate SMS will be when
>> the tactile, relative position of Treo keys (+orienting bump on the 5/F key)
>> is replaced by the visual, minute distance between iPhone soft keys that
>> feel like slippery glass.
>>
>> I don't think there'll be many "eyes-closed" iPhone texters.
>>
>> ~d
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: J Messeder
>>
>> Only if Palm goes back to handwriting recognition on-screen.
>> And even then, there are folks who've become used to the keyboard and
>> wouldn't want to give it up. But my own unscientific opinion is the people
>> who are buying Treos, most of whom as work devices, I'd wager, will probably
>> buy the keyboard over
>> the not-keyboard -- and will probably get used to the virtual keyboard the
>> way others of us touch type -- one key feels like another, but if you're
>> good at it, you just know when you've hit the wrong key. I'm guessing the
>> users of toys -- the kids, most of whom can text-message a telephone with
>> their eyes closed -- with the wherewithal to pay $500-$600, will go for the
>> latest i-line, and the Treo and Blackberry (and a few other similar, as
>> relates to a QWERTY keyboard, users will go for a keyboard that at least
>> looks like the one on their desk -- or they'll write on the screen, if they
>> can.
>>
>>
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>>
>> Yahoo! Groups Links
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