>From what I see, when the screen is facing away from you, the home button will be on your left hand. The phone will say that the home button is on the right, since if you were sitting across from me, the home button would be on your right, and the phone says which side the button is in relationship to the dcreen.
Making it simple, no big deal. If it doesn't work this way, flip it around. Garenteed it will work one of the two ways. Thom -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cheryl Homiak Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 11:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: brailletouch podcast backwards: Rob's website quote Rob: Where on the web page did you get your quote? This is just plain weird and extremely confusing. Here I am copying and pasting from the website from the link that says "user guide" but I put quotes around it. i copied and pasted this quote less than five minutes ago. "Now pick up your phone and turn it in landscape orientation, with the long side going from left to right. Flip the phone around so the screen is facing away from you, with the Home button on your right." Now here is what you apparently took from the website: > "Now pick up your phone and turn it in landscape orientation, with the > long > side going from left to right. Flip the phone around so the screen is facing > away from you, with the Home button on your left." Anybody can see, hear or read with their fingers that these two quotes, both purportedly taken from the website's user guide, are exactly opposite in their placement of the home button! What is going on here? Even though I am looking forward to the introduction of this app and plan to try and probably buy it, i am becoming rather unimpressed with the confusion around this topic. Then throw in Caleb's comment that it only matters which way the home button is if you have your phone locked in portrait mode and you add another layer of confusion. > -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Jan 6, 2013, at 6:46 AM, RobH! <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll quote from the user guide on the web page:- > > Holding the Phone > > Welcome to BrailleTouch, an app that lets you type in braille on your > touchscreen! We designed BrailleTouch so that you hold your phone in two > hands with the screen facing away from you. Let's get familiar with how > to hold the phone. First, pretend that you have a Perkins style braille > keyboard on a table in front of you. Place your fingers on the imaginary six > keys on the table. The first three fingers of each of your hands should be > touching the table. Now lift your hands up, and turn your hands so your > palms are facing each other. This is how you will hold the phone when typing > in braille. > > Now pick up your phone and turn it in landscape orientation, with the > long > side going from left to right. Flip the phone around so the screen is facing > away from you, with the Home button on your left. Hold the phone between > your two hands. > > end quote. > > So even this has ambiguity, if you rotate a line from top to bottom > so it > goes left to right; the Home key would be on the right; quoting a line > from bottom to top and rotating it is a tad unusual. > > I prefer the Home button to the right as that puts the speaker nearer > my > best ear. > > I suppose the first time we try it, all will become clear, tap the > corners > until it says A! > R! > > -- > 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. -- 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.
