Guys, please excuse my ignorance. I have been working a lot and haven't had time to follow these posts. I started reading about this app tonight for the first time. When will it be availible? I'm sure this has been discussed over and over, but I missed it.
------------------------------ On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 5:42 PM CST Georgina Joyce wrote: >Hello, > >I'm sure it will be a lot clearer when the app is installed on the phone. I've >got quite slim fingers and holding the phone to align them in perkins >formation doesn't work as the phone isn't long enough. Coincidently, what >fingers do the forward and backward spaces? > > >Thanks. > >Gena > >On 31/12/2012 22:48, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >> Actually, according to the user guide, it appears to me that the default >> layout will be just like a Perkins brailler. You hold the phone in landscape >> mode with the screen away from you. Then your left index finger will be dot >> 1, left middle dot 2, and the finger next to your pinky will be dot 3. The >> right hand would be the same: dot 4 is your right index finger; dot 5 is >> your right middle finger; dot 6 is the finger next to your right pinky. This >> would be exactly like a Perkins braille writer. Flipping dots 1 and 3 and >> flipping dots 4 and 6, if I'm picturing this crrectly, would put dots 1 and >> 4 under your fingers next to your pinkys. So in the flipped setting, a c >> would be at the two far ends of your two-hand position while in the normal >> default setting the letter c would be the two center points of your two-hand >> position. The default setting should be immediately comfortable for those of >> us who use a Perkins brailler; if I am picturing this correctly, I would find the flipped ke >yboard confusing but I imagine that depends on what you use for writing. >> > >-- "If you want someone who thinks outside the box, hire someone who lives >outside the box" Barbara Otto > >-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >Google Group. >To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >[email protected]. >For more options, visit this group at >http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
