On Nov 28, 2012, at 5:29 AM, Joseph McAllister <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Nov 27, 2012, at 13:24 , Bruce Walker wrote: > >> There just better continue to be an escape hatch to Old Fart Mode or >> there's gonna be trouble. :-) > > Trust me - in Old Farte Mode, you are NOT going to be able to thumb-type > whilst holding on to almost any size or make of communication device. > > At some point, the inaccuracies that Old Fartes put to screen with a full > size, non-chicklet keyboard are very time consuming to go back over and > correct. > > Unless you are Brooke. > > Maybe youth and David have something there - it's not the form nor format as > long as the general idea is communicated. > > > At 64, I guess I've reached olde fartedom. But I need a smartphone for my business, and bought my first, a Droid 2, a couple of years ago. I opted for the android phone in part because, at the time, Verizon didn't support iPhones, and because the Droid 2 had a slide out mini keyboard. At the store I had tried typing on the screen of another android phone without keyboard and found it nearly impossible. At first I used the slide out keyboard on the D2, but it was cumbersome and slow. I eventually learned to manage fairly well typing on the screen but frequently had to backtrack to correct mistakes. A few weeks ago I became eligible for a phone upgrade, so I stopped in at the Verizon store and tried several phones. I found that the iPhone 5 was much easier to type on than any of the android phones. Don't know why, but it's easier to hit the right letter on the touch screen. Now, I can buzz along rather well, with a hunt and peck method and have found that I can even manage the two thumb technique. I will probably continue to practice that. Sending e-mail from the phone is important to my journalism work, so it's worth the effort. Old fartedom has at least been delayed. > > > Joseph McAllister > [email protected] > -- > “ It is still true, as was first said many years ago, that people are the > only sophisticated computing devices that can be made at low cost by > unskilled workers!” > — Martin G. Wolf, PhD > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
