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So recently I was trying to use MSN to talk to a friend on my HTC Magic, and I came to realize that it's a major pain in the ass.
I used to own a Dell x50v a while back, and with the stylus and graffiti option, I was able to enter text really fast.
It's unfortunate everyone's trying to copy apple with the stupid capacitive touch screen. On screen touch keyboards on something that small have to be the stupidest "advent" in technology ever.
I've yet to see a modern smartphone with a stylus :(.
They don't even work with today's touch screens.
If you wanna message, get a keyboard. Touch screens suck.
Ya I know, hence why I hate capacitive touch screens ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Kayin
Just ever doing typing is a pain in the ass though. Trying to just go to a website sometimes is a nightmare.
Oh, I hate touch screens! I mourn the passing of the stylus. I had a touch screen and abandoned it for an HTC Ozone.
I have a stylus that works on capacitive touch screen... I hate it, it's so fat compared to my old stylus on my phones. But I also also have a thumb keyboard.
You guys are wearing rose-tinted glasses. The stylus was awkward to use and a pain in the ass. No-one would write with a pen and paper the way you were expected to use the stylus.
Touch screen is a pain in the ass; it's a lot less accurate than stylus or buttons, but you can use it with one hand if you want to. You get a bigger screen, and the phone can be made more robust if it has less moving parts (like buttons or slide-out keyboards). You also won't lose the stylus. Having used both, I'd have to say I prefer the slide out keyboard to either.
-Dave
Xperia X1? I have it.
Slideout KB, resistive touch with stylus, and (since it's apparently a big deal thanks to Apple) a 300dpi screen.
Only problem is WinMo... Which I like, but since everyone seems to hate it nevermind. lol
The KB (and phone itself) is starting to fall apart. Keys are unresponsive, Idrop it a lot, and WinMo 6.1 seems to be a bottle neck anymore.
Sounds like someone hasn't found swype - or it isn't compatible with their phone.
Swype has improved my quality of life.
Oh and as for styluses, i feel sick when I think how many I lost when I worked for Sony Ericsson
i like touch screens to a point... But i love my keyboard more... Waiting for the droid 2 to be released before i upgrade... Full keyboard/touch screen combo FTW!
I think I dislike non-stylus touch screens because I have poor circulation. I get cold easily which seems to make registering touch on a screen difficult. The last touch screen I had didn't have a stylus. I used a DS stylus. It worked well.
I don't really care for touch screens with or without a stylus. I really dislike the stylus though. I recall having to learn a special set of gestures to use my old PDA, which was absurd. Sure it worked well if you learned it, but the learning curve was a waste of my time. There's a reason I gave up and just tossed my PDA in a dark corner, PDAs sucked.
The N900 has one. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by ownaginatious
That being said, in almost a year that I've had mine, I can count the number of times I've used the stylus on one hand. I far prefer the keyboard as a method of input to anything that a touchscreen can do, and the zoom function on the web-browser is more convenient than pulling out the stylus if I'm having trouble hitting a tiny link.
What I liked about the Windows Mobile one was that you didn't have to use the standard "graffiti" methods that Palm pretty much invented. You could write the letters normally (capital or lower case) and it always knew what you meant, as well as several symbols.Quote:
Originally Posted by chaksq
Just go MARRY your n900, k?Quote:
Originally Posted by x88x
lolQuote:
Originally Posted by dr.walrus
Hey, I can't help that it keeps coming up. :P
You can always buy a used PDA cheap ... I've seen top models like X51v, iPAQ 210, hx2750 selling for ~$10-$20 on eBay and craigslist, 3-packs of styli for $0.99 more. Seems they're just not worth that much anymore if phone isn't integrated, but they've still got WiFi and BT. Sometimes they're even cheaper if the lithiums have died of old age.
I've been thinking of picking one or two up just to salvage the 4" VGA screens, but getting them to work (on, say, a bay-mounted display) would probably turn into too much of a project.