information efficient text enty using dasher

Steven Milburn steven.milburn at gmail.com
Wed May 30 23:22:28 CEST 2007


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Many fingerprint sensors that would fit where the button is have a
navigation function.  They operate much like the touchstick, or a mini
touchpad, when not capturing a fingerprint.  They are gaining traction in
the tablet and ultra-mobile PC market for doing scrolling and simple
navigation when a stylus is overkill for a certain quick navigation action.

For example, this tablet has one on the top left (as pictured)
http://www.tabletpc2.com/Review-FujitsuST5020-Article020605.htm


</shamless_plug>

--Steve

On 5/30/07, Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org> wrote:
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> Flemming Richter Mikkelsen said the following on 30/05/07 14:21:
> > Just one more thing....
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> > On my laptop I have this little joystick button in the middle of the
> > keyboard. If we could get a button like that on the side of the neo
> > phone, dasher would be great.
>
> A little scroll wheel like on mice or on the side of a BlackBerry would be
> good
> for Dasher. Scrolling is a common operation, it'd be cool to have it on
> the
> OpenMoko.
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> Rory
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