Oneric/Unity w cinnamon actually is human

[GreyGeek]

Re: One person's history of Gnome/unity and cinnamon

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If it's a phone, I hope they put a hardware keyboard on it. I cling to my G2 not because it's the latest and greatest but because few decent Android phones have keyboards anymore.
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It is the absence of a decent keyboard that kept me from purchasing one of the tablets. I was leaning to the ASUS Eee PC T101MT-EU27-BK 10.1-Inch Convertible Tablet but then asked myself "What's the difference between it and my wife's Acer Aspire One?". I hate greasy screens so I wouldn't use a touch screen without a stylus .....

My son was given an iPad 32GB for Xmas a year ago. He eventually got a docking station with a built in keyboard because the virtual keyboards have no tactile feed back and typing is still tough. A few days ago I saw a video about a new silicon overlay called "TouchFire". It overlay's the virtual keyboard and supplies a tactile response. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...4Wqbd-7qM#t=5s

[woodsmoke]

Re: Oneric/Unity w cinnamon actually is human

Just as a comment, one of my two lab assistants has a Kindle type tablet that also does internet and office type stuff and she types comfortably on the on-screen keyboard in landscape mode. Kids are somewhat more adaptable than us old folks! lol

woodsmoke

[GreyGeek]

Re: Oneric/Unity w cinnamon actually is human

That's a fact!

My BIG problem with virtual keyboards is that my hands shake while resting on/above the keys, causing mistyping. And, my fingers are too big to fit on just one key at a time, so I have a lot of double strikes. jk or lm, etc...
That's why I never text on my cell phone. It takes too long to create even a simple message.

[woodsmoke]

Re: Oneric/Unity w cinnamon actually is human

Hi GG
Depending upon the physical device, i have the Samsung Galaxy S, there is a voice recognition option for texting that uses the "Nuance" back end.

I very seldom actually type to text anymore, I talk to the phone and, surprisingly, if one uses "real" english, not slang, and speaks a real, complete and SHORT sentence, it works correctly almost one hundred percent of the time.

I then hit space, physically, or a "period", and speak a new, short, complete sentence, with the correct adjectives like "the" etc. And the new sentence appears automagically.

This also works in the car as long as the radio is not playing. When I get a text, I push reply and the microphone and talk as if I'm on the phone.

I started using an "earbud" thing with the original android and do that today so that I don't have to actually "handle" the phone so I can keep my attention on the road....

AND I HAVE DONE ONE OTHER THING TO NOT GET INTO A WRECK and save battery power....

I changed the settings to where the incoming text appears ten minutes after it was actually received by the phone,

THUS .....I do not have the "sense of urgency" which, I personally think, is the "cause" of most of the accidents we have heard about.

really amazing technology.

woodsmoke

[GreyGeek]

Re: Oneric/Unity w cinnamon actually is human

I have Dragon on my iPod, which is very good at converting speech into text, but it is mostly a front end to the Internet search engine. I don't email or post msgs in forums from my iPod because the screen is too small.