RE: Typing on the IPhone and using its GPS

2009-07-25 Thread Simon Fogarty
aries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Blouch Sent: Friday, 24 July 2009 6:16 a.m. To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Typing on the IPhone and using its GPS I found that my double-tap wasn't very accurate. I often ended up double tapping a

Re: Typing on the IPhone and using its GPS

2009-07-23 Thread Chris Blouch
I found that my double-tap wasn't very accurate. I often ended up double tapping a nearby key or tapping once on one key and the second on another key. The 'split tap' seemed to work much better. Another thing that has worked well is the flick left and right through elements on the screen. For

Re: Typing on the IPhone and using its GPS

2009-07-23 Thread Chris Blouch
Umm, yes, much slower on the iPhone. On the mac I have a full-size keyboard with no need to double tap or anything. Not sure that means much though. CB Ryan Mann wrote: > Is your typing slower on the Iphone than on the mac? It seems like it > would be since you're just using two fingers. > >

Re: Typing on the IPhone and using its GPS

2009-07-20 Thread william lomas
a friend of mine said he can find a key and tap it twice once he has found it to insert it On 20 Jul 2009, at 22:44, Ryan Mann wrote: > > Is your typing slower on the Iphone than on the mac? It seems like it > would be since you're just using two fingers. > > On Jul 20, 2009, at 5:29 PM, Chri

Re: Typing on the IPhone and using its GPS

2009-07-20 Thread Ryan Mann
Is your typing slower on the Iphone than on the mac? It seems like it would be since you're just using two fingers. On Jul 20, 2009, at 5:29 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > > I've heard that once people get good at it you hold a key on the left > side of the virtual keyboard and tap with a finger o

Re: Typing on the IPhone and using its GPS

2009-07-20 Thread Chris Blouch
I've heard that once people get good at it you hold a key on the left side of the virtual keyboard and tap with a finger on the right hand or vice versa. For now I end up hunting with one finger and tapping with another for every key. Like VO on the Mac I'm finding many iPhone apps are fairly

RE: Typing on the IPhone and using its GPS

2009-07-19 Thread Simon Fogarty
I haven't tried the gps but the typing feature got me for a start. You move / put one finger on the character you want and then tap the screen with another and the character is typed to the screen. I found it really easy after got the fingers working together. -Original Message- From:

Re: Typing on the IPhone and using its GPS

2009-07-18 Thread Scott Chesworth
Might be worth you taking a read of the thread entitled iPhone accessibility James. There's been 19 messages in the last day or so all around these same questions. There's also been more than a few podcasts and demos and suchlike, might be worth having a quick poke in the list archives for those