Can we have an Amen!
Don Ferguson wrote:
> Not surprising to me at all. I expect that the iPhone will be a very
> cool user experience, except for text entry. I've tried several of
> those touch screen home theater remote controls, and there's a reason
> the best ones still have real buttons for on/off fast forward, play,
> rewind, etc, etc.
>
> Buttons are good. That's the reason the Blackberry grew up. That's the
> reason the Treo is successful.
>
> I just hope that the UI experience on the iPhone can be ported in some
> ways to the Treo. It would be cool to be able to do that zoom/pan thing
> in the Blazer followon, to flip through things in the contacts or
> pTunes, etc. etc. Cool, but not necessary.
>
> I like cool, but I always come back to necessary. I'd like it if they
> were both in the same box.
>
> Cheers,
> Don
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> Craig Froehle
> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 8:08 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Treo] Re: keyboards
>
> 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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