OQO e2 Windows Palmtop
Apparently the “dinky keyboard on the award-winning OQO e2 Windows Palmtop is too big to type comfortably with thumbs and too small to type conventionally”. I’m surprised with all the touch-screen technology around at the moment, that they haven’t utilised this. Perhaps technologists didn’t want an overkill? Source: TrendHunter
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phiphi 17:33 on November 19, 2007 Permalink |
I think your point there of a touchscreen keyboard is irrelevant to some extent, as I personally think the iPhone/iTouch’s full QWERTY touch screen keyboard suffers from the same problem. Apparently theres some error checking but I still had trouble typing in http://www.facebook.com at a decent speed on the iTouch when I tried it out.
I actually think a touchscreen version of T9 (I use intelliPad on my Pocket PC, see screenshot: http://www.schrankmonster.de/content/binary/intellipad1.gif) or a highly optimised QWERTY hybrid such as TouchPal (http://www.cootek.com/) would be a lot more efficient and speedy.
The experimental FITALY which aims to replace QWERTY for mobile devices is also very interesting, check it out at http://fitaly.com/fitaly/fitaly.htm
danni-L 12:10 on November 20, 2007 Permalink |
Wow! So many options that hold much potential. Thanks phiphi.
Perhaps the technology that was used in the Helsinki City Wall project, where it can detect ‘how’ big one’s fingers/hands are and then accommodate as appropriate – could be placed in the ‘consideration mix’.