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	Benson	2009-01-11 , 10:32
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Originally Posted by ragnar

This d-pad thing is quite interesting to me. Probably the best touch mobile UI's right now in the market (or at least launched), the iPhone and the Palm Pre, neither has a d-pad in the device. ... Why would you really need the d-pad?

Think WASD+mouse: two-handed control with e.g. scrolling, page-turning with d-pad; selecting, drawing with the touchscreen. Especially in Xournal.

Also as a gaming input. Using an accelerometer as a tilt joystick is the most natural replacement, but even that doesn't work so well when I'm lying on my side in a beanbag chair playing Tyrian, a use-case the d-pad was designed around.

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