ipod touch
Written from iPod touch. Touch screen keyboard sucks! I love my PDA with keyboard 
5 minutes to write this post .
Second part, written from laptop: I only had about 10 minutes to play with the Ipod Touch before the employee kicked be out. He wanted to go home and I was the last person in the store 
The keyboard is really hard to use. My thumbs are too big, and it didn’t work when I tried my PDA pen nor a regular pen. I guess it expects a larger surface of contact, so I was only able to type with my fingers. My PDA (HP HW6915) has a regular keyboard, but even using the pen and touch keyboard is much faster than using the Ipod Touch one.
Apart from this bad experience, I didn’t have much time to try the device’s features. Only got to try the browser and I liked it. It displays the pages nicer than IE on Windows Mobile. It is also very slim, more than I expected. Still, not in my wishlist. I did like the iPod Nano and may get one sometime.
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November 25th, 2007 at 12:23 am
did you try to flip the keyboard horizontally? it was better like that - but, like you, we’ve only tried it for 5 minutes
November 25th, 2007 at 2:51 am
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.
November 25th, 2007 at 10:04 am
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…
November 25th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
@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
November 27th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
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