Thread: Nokia N950 Beta2 firmware is out
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don_falcone is offline don_falcone
2011-10-10 , 21:45
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Originally Posted by jalyst View Post
keyb is the only other reason why you think it's "teh awesomest"?
There's tiny/portable BT qwerty's that are far better than any built-ins for serious typing.
The N9's VKB is excellent for less serious typing, supports everything a modern VKB should.
...BT keyboards, which cost an premium (easily $40 if they should not be total rubbish) and then almost all of them do not even provide HID and SPP profiles. I easily pay $100 or more for a good mechanical (i.e. with Cherry MX or ALPS switches) PC keyboard, but not $40 to $60 for such plastic crap; which sucks extra juice by the way - I'm not the type that leaves his BT on all the time for power and for security reasons.

So, that plastic crap has to be better included.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the screenshots I've seen look like the N9 VKB does not provide a 4th row, and you have to use a mode switch to enter digits.

That alone would make this and any other VKB crap. Guess you have passwords with digits (how unusual, eh?)... that's why I find the VKB of my TouchPad quite ok (it's slow as molasses for me nonetheless to type "virtual"), it gives me a separate digits row. It even has CTRL and ESC simulations if you know how-to. If I succeed some day altering the layout to include cursor keys (seriously, it's friggin' pain using text fields without shift/ctrl/arrow/tab combinations, for cursor positioning), I would be even considering myself happy somehow.

So much for N950 vs. N9...
Last edited by don_falcone; 2011-10-10 at 22:03.
 

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