__/ [ BearItAll ] on Tuesday 20 June 2006 13:18 \__
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>> Microsoft is now going head-to-head against the iPod. DRM lockins and user
>> channelling is the only thing that can give them momentum. Microsoft folks
>> have also begun entering the webcams business. More shoddy, overpriced
>> hardware yet to be stocked at your local shop...
>>
>>
>>> All I hope is that they don't make it too small, little diddy screens
>>> might look cute and fit in pockets, but they are crappy to use.
>>
>>
>> At least you can use them at the gym, or at the queue in a grocery store.
>> It's only 'portable stuff' that you need to do on the PDA.
>
> I don't play games on mine, but I do have to be able to read the screen and
> scribble sometimes long words on the screen. You wouldn't believe the
> number of times I end up scribbling the last two or three letters on top of
> each other because I ran out of screen, in the vain hope that the ocr will
> sort it out.
>
> Write smaller? After a time you get a feel for what the OCR will manage
> written small and what it needs large to work it out. Sometimes you can't
> avoid a long word with one or two over large letters in it.
>
>>> might look cute and fit in pockets, but they are crappy to use.
>>
>>
>> At least you can use them at the gym, or at the queue in a grocery store.
>> It's only 'portable stuff' that you need to do on the PDA.
>>
>
> I don't play games on mine, but I do have to be able to read the screen and
> scribble sometimes long words on the screen. You wouldn't believe the
> number of times I end up scribbling the last two or three letters on top of
> each other because I ran out of screen, in the vain hope that the ocr will
> sort it out.
The size in input should never be an issue. The PDA will re-scale it. Go
marco, the PDA will do it micro. There is only the issues of overview
(handling a large amount of partly visible data) or screen resolution, which
requires good eyesight if set very high (density).
> Write smaller? After a time you get a feel for what the OCR will manage
> written small and what it needs large to work it out. Sometimes you can't
> avoid a long word with one or two over large letters in it.
After about 4 years with Graffiti (I refuse to accept Graffiti 2, courtesy of
Xerox lawsuits) I can easily type as I walk. I use the entire space
available for strokes to be unambiguous. Ribbon-type shortcut in Palm PDA's
also mean that you should only input a few symbols to form a broader amount
of information.
Best wishes,
Roy
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