Input Method - Missing Buttongrip

[Ortwin Regel]

I don't think the screen is big enough to make this necessary or usefull.

Ortwin

On 5/5/07, openmokolist.50.minime at xoxy.net
<openmokolist.50.minime at xoxy.net> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> here we go, first mailinglist post :)
>
>
>
> It has been often argued that it will not be easy to use a touchpad-only
> phone if one does not see the displayed keyboard because of the lack
> hard-buttons you can actually feel and touch. Textmessaging therefore
> needs complete focus on the phone's display and you can't write or
> adjust anything on your phone without looking at it.
>
> Idea: Why not have a one-finger-fix and four(or three)-fingers-write
> input? With all five or four fingers on the phone's display, one(maybe
> your little finger or thumb) defines a fixpoint on the display. The
> other fingers now can be put on certain points at relative locations to
> the fixpointing finger(several input method ideas can be implemented
> from here on).
> This way one would not be dependent on absolute positions of a displayed
> keyboard one would not be able to feel, but one would be able to create
> those points by pointing a finger there.
>
> I acknowledge that there would be several implementations problems
> coming up, like how to change between a fixed-finger-input-method and a
> fixed displayed keyboard and menus.
>
>
> minime/tim
>
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