<span class="gmail_quote">On 7/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Giles Jones</b> <<a href="mailto:giles.jones@zen.co.uk">giles.jones@zen.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>I don't think your finger will slide around the screen easily enough<br>to make it work. Even if it does it will leave lots of smears on the<br>screen. Also I don't see that typing is any slower than graffiti if
<br>the keyboard is well designed. I just hate using handwriting<br>recognition, I've used it on Palm, Windows Mobile and use it now on<br>my Nintendo DS.<br><br>If you're like me and don't write on paper all that much you get
<br>irritated with having to write very perfectly on such devices, I'd<br>also say typing uses less effort and you won't get finger/joint ache<br>if you use it a lot.<br><br>I think the major problem with small screen size and text entry is
<br>seeing the screen with your finger in the way.</blockquote><div><br>Yeah, early onset finger arthritis could be an unpleasant side effect. As for the screen, it will have smears already from regular use.. which might actually help with easier sliding. I also find handwriting recognition software quite painful to use, but in conjunction with a smart dictionary to compensate for similar characters (ie recognize that strokes for 9re9t should really be interpreted as great and replace on the fly), the experience might be improved.
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