Have you ever used the iPhone keyboard ? It is fantastic after you learn to use your full fingerprints and not worry about about touch overspill. My typing speed now exceeds what i used to achieve on my BBerry.
All this anti-touch talk reminds me of the anti-mouse talk in the '80s. I'm old enough to remember the vocal majority saying the mouse was just a silly gimmick and how it highlighted a GUI interface was just a toy.
Yeah I have used it. I tried and tried for a long time, and there is no way my speed or accuracy ever got up to blackberry speeds. Also, I had to stare at the screen the whole time and couldn't touch-type. Try typing out about 3 pages of legalese without looking and compare accuracy and time.
And the auto-replacing dictionary sucks if you need to type in multiple languages or use technical/legal terms. The iPhone has one advantage in supporting the display of japanese text, but you can't type back in Japanese and it hates romanji. It hates legal terms and abbreviations even more.
I have yet to see anyone who actually was decent at typing on a blackberry be faster on an iphone for any substantive e-mail.
Regardless of the learning curve or speeds, tactile keyboards will always be favored simply because the fact that it brings another sense (touch) into the typing process. Once you can feel the keys you can take your eyes off the keys and still be mostly confident of what is being typed.
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akatsuki @ Sep 13th 2007 8:32AM
I think the keyboard and 3G are both huge advantages...
smith1 @ Sep 13th 2007 10:15AM
Have you ever used the iPhone keyboard ? It is fantastic after you learn to use your full fingerprints and not worry about about touch overspill. My typing speed now exceeds what i used to achieve on my BBerry.
All this anti-touch talk reminds me of the anti-mouse talk in the '80s. I'm old enough to remember the vocal majority saying the mouse was just a silly gimmick and how it highlighted a GUI interface was just a toy.
In 5 years most hanhelds will be multi-touch.
akatsuki @ Sep 13th 2007 10:31AM
Yeah I have used it. I tried and tried for a long time, and there is no way my speed or accuracy ever got up to blackberry speeds. Also, I had to stare at the screen the whole time and couldn't touch-type. Try typing out about 3 pages of legalese without looking and compare accuracy and time.
And the auto-replacing dictionary sucks if you need to type in multiple languages or use technical/legal terms. The iPhone has one advantage in supporting the display of japanese text, but you can't type back in Japanese and it hates romanji. It hates legal terms and abbreviations even more.
I have yet to see anyone who actually was decent at typing on a blackberry be faster on an iphone for any substantive e-mail.
thudson @ Sep 13th 2007 4:27PM
@smith1
Regardless of the learning curve or speeds, tactile keyboards will always be favored simply because the fact that it brings another sense (touch) into the typing process. Once you can feel the keys you can take your eyes off the keys and still be mostly confident of what is being typed.
--Travis Hudson, MWW Group on behalf of Samsung