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people talk/write about not having a keyboard.  when you've learned the system, it's much speedier, intelligent writing software, and the easiest path to detailed...

Would you want to write and edit a thousand words on it?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 06:33:45 PM EST
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who writes and edits a thousand words (i assume in one doc) on a phone?  for emails and sms its a dream.  after a few hours its second nature, and for me at least, far quicker.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
by Crazy Horse on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 06:50:31 PM EST
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I've done that on a Communicator more than a few times, and I used to do it on a pocketable Psion. It wasn't as fast or convenient as a laptop, but sometimes a laptop isn't convenient. Or possible.

The Communicator wasn't so bad for emails or sms either. It was also pretty damn convenient as an extended-form idea pad. Notepad is not an equivalent, for all kinds of reasons.

So - less of the 'blind' please. Sometimes if someone doesn't instantly love an Apple product to absolute bits, there may be good practical reasons for that.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 07:29:05 PM EST
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TBG, you're an exception to the rule.  Most of us don't have your experience with all kinds of devices.  This one, the iPhone, is simply a treasure to most of us.  It makes reading and responding on the internet so easy for us, with software i call elegant.

I bow to those with far more experience, but in the world-view of unsophisticated but harried drones like me, this is a dream.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 07:40:58 PM EST
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For those of us who are optically challenged, handwriting recognition is the only way to input text. My SE 910i has a large screen - the bottom half produces lower case, the centre produces caps, and numbers at the top. Though if I need umlauts and special characters I have to switch 'keyboard'.

There was a short learning curve, but I soon got to do it without looking at the screen - which is what I do to surreptitiously make notes in meetings occasionally. I prefer to go to meetings 'naked' - just face, hands and voice. Invite me into a meeting room with heads buried behind laptop screens and I'll ask them 'why didn't we do this online?'

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 02:55:25 AM EST
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I've done a couple of hundred, with my big mutant thumbs. Now, I was sitting on a beach with C asleep in my lap and I had very little else to do,  but it is doable. The text didn't need much more clean-up when I was done, though I wouldn't be doing final editing on it, or any other device that small.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 03:03:40 AM EST
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