Amen brother -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J Messeder Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 7:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Treo] Re: keyboards
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. > >> > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > -- /"Thirty-five million deaths leave an empty place at only one family table." / (News commentator Eric Severied in a radio essay on the 25th anniversary of the start of World War Two. 8/31/64) Yahoo! Groups Links
