On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:39:57 -0500, Chipp Walters wrote: > - Absolutely could not type on the keyboard. Very difficult. Perhaps > my fingers are too large. Where's the stylus when you need one? > (Side note: > there WILL be a huge market in 3rd party styluses for this thing.) > My guess > is they'll have to fix the keyboard input. AFAICT, it's just not usable.
When I first heard about the keyboard, I was really wondering if it was going to be usable. But I saw this video (http://www.apple.com/iphone/usingiphone/keyboard.html) shows that the keyboard has predictive capabilities and autocorrect features so that it will allow you to (a) type words incorrectly and still have them show up properly, and (b) expand the touch area of a letter to make it easier to strike it. For (a), take a look closely at the tail end of the video where the person is typing up an email with two thumbs - he makes a lot of mistakes, but the iPhone autocorrected his text as he was typing. And for (b), which is also in the video, here's the example they gave: If you are typing a word that starts with "tim", the iPhone knows that there aren't any common words that start with "timr" or timw" (the "r" and "w" are on either side of the "e" on the keyboard), so it *widens* the tap zone of the "e" key by taking most of space from the "w" and most of the space from the "r". I personally haven't tried it, but I would guess that based on this info, and it only may apply to certain apps, but I think we'll have to wait a few weeks to see how people are doing with it to get a good feel for whether it becomes usable. It may be likely that people are trying (logically) to type real words are are correcting themselves before the predictive/autocorrect features can kick in (I know *I* would if I didn't know about the keyboard features above). Just my 2 cents, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
