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2011-10-10
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Originally Posted by jalyst
...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.
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.
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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2011-10-10
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I PM'd him & all's cool, but since you want to carry it on.
I've found them better to use than buit-ins for heavy typing.
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.
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.
Originally Posted by don_falcone
Personal opinion I guess. I'm happy with BT or USB portables.
...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..
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.
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...
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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I suggest re-reading my OP, it's intent was not to offend.
Fact remains, this is not the thread for what you want to discuss.
If you want to start a thread lamenting about there being no N950.
Feel free to do so....
Last edited by jalyst; 2011-10-10 at 21:18.