Good recap, thanks for sharing :) Despite how scared I am of the keyboard, I am sure we will Demo a few of them as soon as we can get the ActiveSync running on it! (And maybe a new carrier to provide it too, but I won't hold my breath :)
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of john.messeder Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 3:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Moving away from Palm soon (Was: Re: [Treo] Sync via BT on Vista Ultimate) I don't think so, but maybe. Of course, there are no bumps to count, but I can't type on the Treo without looking, either, though I can type fairly quickly if I concentrate. (I go about 80-90 wpm on a regular keyboard.) But after a week on the iPhone, I was getting pretty comfortable. Pretty close to not looking though. Kind of like out of the edge of your eye you're sort of keeping track without actually concentrating on finger placement. I have seen users really scream on the iPhone, so it's clear the keyboard, once you're used to it, is darn usable. Thing is, as I alluded, on the Treo, with Tealscript, I can write without looking. That means I can hold the Treo, or set it on the console, and write on the screen. I don't make any more errors than with the keyboard. The Treo keyboard is OK for one-handed typing, but again, I have to look what I'm doing. Back when I only had a regular phone for texting, I could do pretty well holding the phone and typing without looking, but the QWERTY board makes that pretty much impossible. So the answer it No, but if you have to pull over to type, you also don't have to concentrate on the keypad. On 05/06/2008 at 1555 -0400 "Sam Cayze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you type on the iPhone keyboard without your eyes looking at the > keys? Yak know, like you're supposed to type on real keyboards? If I > have to move my eyes to look at the keys, forget it. But I am curious > to hear your thoughts... > > Thanks, > > Sam > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > john.messeder > Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 2:34 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Moving away from Palm soon (Was: Re: [Treo] Sync via BT on > Vista Ultimate) > > Well, the last guy said that died, so =) > Seriously, though, what I liked about the soft keyboard was the keys > actually were large enough that once you learned where to put your > finger, it was pretty easy typing on it -- unlike the Treo, which > doesn't like my thumbnail. > > On 05/06/2008 at 1514 -0400 > "Craig Froehle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> You can take my hardware keyboard from me when you pry it out of my >> cold, dead hands. >> > > -- /"Thirty-five million deaths leave an empty place at only one family table." / (News commentator Eric Sevareid in a radio essay on the 25th anniversary of the start of World War Two. 8/31/64) ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links
