Comments on: ipod touch

By: Levi Figueira

Levi Figueira — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:17:29 +0000

I don’t like using it horizontally… and I have large(r) thumbs! And one thing I’ve learned about the predictive typing is: type and forget it… Keep typing! It will in most cases correct your typos! If you keep going back and correcting it makes it harder on both the predicting and on you!

And I’ve used the keyboard for… many hours on my iPhone!

Now I wish there was predictive portuguese typing… although mine has learned quite a few words!

@freelance samurai: you just gave me the explanation on why it’s so sensitive on fingers and doesn’t detect clothing or, now that I know, non-conductive materials! Thanks =D

By: vitor

vitor — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:37:34 +0000

@ana: yes, I tried it horizontally. Indeed, I only used it horizontally.

One more thing… its size is even bigger than my PDA. Now people won’t look at me with a strange look because I have a big phone

By: Freelance Samurai

Freelance Samurai — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:04:59 +0000

well…not really a bigger surface of contact but rather electrical current.
Apple tends to use capacitive touch screen’s on those devices. which means there’s a coat of conductive material over the screen, but touching it with anything that is also conductive it tampers with the electrical flux of the coat thus giving you a precise x y coordinate of there that tampering is occurring.

this is by far the geekiest comment I’ve even made in a blog, and I do apologize.

as you were…

By: Bruno Figueiredo

Bruno Figueiredo — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 07:51:55 +0000

I agree with you. The Touch/iPhone keyboard may be fine for writing the occasional sms and odd note but it’s not a replacement for a proper physical keyboard. Haptic feedback is very important.

By: ana

ana — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 05:23:45 +0000

did you try to flip the keyboard horizontally? it was better like that - but, like you, we’ve only tried it for 5 minutes