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new thumb board layouts?
why noy a new thum board based on the fitaly layout or something similar? i pesonally don't want to use a stylus. i like thumb boards like on my reo 600. but i am sure they can come up with a better layout than qwerty.
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RE: new thumb board layouts?
I wonder how the sales is gonna do with that... hmm...
RE: new thumb board layouts?
FITALY was, indeed, optimized for use with a stylus, which consisted of a) grouping the most common letters around the center, and b) arranging letters so that the next letter in a given word was most likely adjacent to the letter just struck. Both of these sound like excellent criteria for a keyboard that's going to have two thumbs hovering over the middle of it (though it certainly isn't a layout I'd want to ten-finger touch-type on).
I've been using FITALY for years and would love to see a Treo 650 with a FITALY keyboard, but it'll never happen -- familiar almost always beats superior, in the mass-audience consumer marketplace, which is why most of the world is cursing at virus-infested PCs, rather than using Macs.
All hail Jim!
http://www.fitaly.com/domperignon/domperignon3.htm
Way to go, Jim!
I wonder what his graffiti speeds are. :)
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !!!!! Silly conclusions rock!
>>One example in point is Jim Belich who won this contest with
>>FitalyVirtual at 80.88 wpm. Jim is actually the same person
>>who won in 2002 at 84 wpm on a thumboard. So while the
>>thumboard was marginally faster, one may wonder if the slim
>>difference justifies using two hands instead of one, when you
>>are likely to need the other hand for other tasks like holding
>>a phone in one hand, while the other hand enters notes on your
>>conversation.
Ha ha ha ha ha!!!!
I love it... does anyone else see the sillyness in that comment?
"one may wonder if the slim difference justifies using two hands instead of one"
Ok... so let me see if I get this... one hand is free for other things... the other hand holds the stylus...
and the third hand holds the PDA?!?!?!
:-P
Too darn funny!
...
Anyway... as far as the same dude winning in 2003 and 2004... kudos to him... except for the fact that reading the rules it becomes abundantly clear that it would be pretty easy for someone who just wanted a free bottle of Dom Perignon to ask a buddy to "certify" that he in fact achieved a certain result.
not saying that's what happened... just saying that occam's razor may be considered here.
Alessandro
RE: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !!!!! Silly conclusions rock!
and the third hand holds the PDA?!?!?! <<<
A desk or table or lap could hold the PDA ...
RE: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !!!!! Silly conclusions rock!
Yeah, there are plenty of situations I hadn't thought about.
Of course then there's the fact that I would guess MOST FOLKS would have a very hard time doing something else with their hand while entering data at 70wpm on their PDA.
Alessandro
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