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I PM'd him & all's cool, but since you want to carry it on.

Originally Posted by don_falcone View Post
...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.
So, that crap has to be better included..
Personal opinion I guess. I'm happy with BT or USB portables.
I've found them better to use than buit-ins for heavy typing.

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.
Dunno, still learning about all it's aspects, yet to be all confirmed/doco'd in the one spot.
From what I've seen though, it seems roughly as good as iOS/Android handsets.
I don't have a feature-count list handy to say definitively that harmattan's VKB is better or worse.

So much for N950 vs. N9...
If you consider no hw qwerty as the main reason why the N950's better.
I'm not sure how many could, but each to his own.

Off-topic here anyways

Last edited by jalyst; 2011-10-10 at 22:02.
 

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