Re: Would you use a PPC with no D-pad?

Wow, that's pretty cool. Guess I shouda RTFM...oh wait, there wasn't one. Guess that should have been obvious.

"Todd All***" <elecconnec@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:jo7em.27$rD6.24@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Here's a trick it took me several months to accidentally discover on my
wife's iToy:

When you want to position the cursor in a piece of text, like a mistyped
URL, hold your finger on the text for a few "Mississippi", and a little
magnifying glass pops up with the area your finger is covering enlarged
inside. Now lift your finger and place it in the magnifying glass where
you want the cursor placed.

So intuitive, eh?


As I often joke, we use styli instead of fingers on touchscreens for the
same reason we write with pens instead of fingerpaints.


At 04 Aug 2009 20:30:09 -0600 Sven wrote:
On the iphone I would at least like to see cursor buttons on the on-
screen keyboard. It is virtually impossible to position the cursor
accurately within text. With the finger typing as crappy as it is, for
me anyway, I often notice a mistake a few letters back. I have never
managed to get the cursor where I need it to backspace over a
character. With the copy and paste feature now in 3.0, it typically
assesses the attempt to position the cursor as wanting to highlight and
do one of those brand new innovative functions. So I wind up
backspacing almost as much as I type. Give me a stylus, (even with
Transcriber) or a real keyboard any day I actually need to enter
something on my iPhone.

So, take that as an endorsement of a D-Pad, especially if you don't get
an up,down,left,right option some other way.


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> On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:53:46 -0500, Beverly Howard
> <Bev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Assume it's primarily a cost issue, then style and copying the i...
>
> I'm pretty sure I heard a claim that the DPad is not necessary with UI
> that makes finger control easy. And it adds bulk to the device. Would
> a DPad help iPhone users enough to justify the extra cost and bulk? I
> sure don't think _current_ Windows Mobile UI can do without it.
>
>
>>
>>The lack of cursor buttons is a huge detriment to serious usability.
>>
>>Beverly Howard
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