Slightly More Questions Than Your Average Joe

[Guest nowimboard]

Morning all!

Could someone do a couple of screen shots of text entry for the M500 And possibly Explain the differnt entry types?

I'm refering mostly to texing and sending emails, logically becuase that's where I will be sending the most txt.

I understand on Palms, they use Graffiti? Is this the case with the M500? I have also seen (through coolsmartphone.com) That you can pick up bluetooth/IR keyboards, I was thinking about picking one up for those longer emails and word documents to write. Would anyone you consider this to be a good buy?

Thanks again Everybody!

[Guest Xenzo1990]

You have: Onscreen Qwerty Keyboard that you can use with a stylus or incredible small fingers :)

You can use the Phone Pad which gives you a simulated version of a keypad of a phone, you can use your fingers for this. You can use Multitap, t9 or 123 (numbers) on the phone pad.

You also have block analyser: I THINK this takes words you write in handwriting with the stylus and puts them into text form.

There is one other I think but I can't remmeber.

[Guest vijay555]

By default you have lettter recognizer which is like a small that you can write on and it'll recognise it (I think - i never use it), block recongnizer which is like Grafitti, transcriber which will try to recognise handwriting on the screen, and the onscreen keyboard. Frankly, although there are replacement onscreen keybaords available (eg the excellent Fitaly) the onscreen keyboard can be made big and usable by default.

I personally use Caligrapher for lots of writing - it's a much better and usable handwriting recogniser, the best available on PPC i think, or TouchKeyboard, which will give me a large full screen thumboard.

External keyboards; some use mirrors, which can be a pain, although I saw a very nice thumbkeyboard type go for about £20 on ebay; I bough my mirror type for about £8 on ebay, so both quite easy buys. Bluetooth keyboards will cost £50+, although can probably be used on your pc as well. This is quite an expensive solution unless you tend to do a lot of typing. Frankly, the pullava of pulling out, unfolding, connecting and then selecting the folding keyboard is probably not worth it for day to day work (eg SMS, notes etc). But for writing essays (Use TextMaker!) it might be worth it.

If you really want to see the keyboards available, go into dixons or download the emulator! There's not much to explain by a screenshot.

Vijay

[Guest nowimboard]

thanks for the replies guys, Emulator? Where/What is that?

[Guest Disco Stu]

Perhaps a little review of TouchKeyboard, Vijay ? :)

Does it have T9 function ?

[Guest nowimboard]

If you really want to see the keyboards available, go into dixons or download the emulator! There's not much to explain by a screenshot.

Vijay

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WHAT EMULATOR!!??!? :) :cry:

/get hysterical