04-12-2002, 06:52 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 8,228
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What is your favorite input method?
I am curious. What is the input method you use the most?
Your Pocket PC comes with several different methods, and you can buy a few others. There are the new thumb-keyboards. For this discussion, I am excluding full or mini-keyboards because they require a desk or at least you to be sitting to use and are intended more for heads down work, not updating a task, inputting a contact or firing off a quick email. The new thumb keyboards, especially the Jornada's, integrate more or less into device and you can use them anywhere, anytime.
Click on the "Add your thoughts" link below and cast your vote.
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04-12-2002, 07:06 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 31
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Definately the QWERTY on-screen keyboard (small keys).
I tried using the transcriber/character recognizer, as well as the FITALY methods, but just couldn't get used to them.
Good ole' QWERTY seems to work fine 
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04-12-2002, 07:07 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 80
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Definitely Graffiti (Block recognizer)
The character recognizer is too flexible and makes too many mistakes with my not very neat left handed handwriting. But the block recognizer makes almost no mistakes. It also handles punctuation that the character recognizer requires you to use the stupid little punctuation keyboard for.
In fact, block recognizer is probably my favorite new feature in PPC2002.
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04-12-2002, 07:16 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 22
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Block Recognizer
I just got my iPAQ 3850 two months ago (Love it). Prior to that I was a 3-year Palm user. Over that 3 year period I became fluent in the Graphitti method of text entry on the Palm.
I was absolutely tickled when I found out I didn't have to re-learn a new character set for Pocket PC. Block Recognizer is amazing.
iPAUL :wink:
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04-12-2002, 07:21 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 100
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I guess you can put me down for Transcriber, but it's quite a bit inferior to the full Calligrapher 6 suite.
I'm still waiting/hoping for Calligrapher with learn-able (modifiable) stroke patterns.
Aceze
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04-12-2002, 07:22 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 92
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In this order:
1. Calligrapher
2. QWERTY (If number intensive input is required)
3. AccessPanel
BTW I regret the purchase of my HP Pocket Keyboard.
JamesM
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04-12-2002, 07:27 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 179
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Fitaly for fast figures and facts!
For those who spend the time getting to know the Fitaly layout, it pays off big time in terms of speed. It takes about 2 hours to get comfortable with the layout and about a day to become proficient. After that, any of my users who have spent the time getting to know it have never gone back.
The new version 3 has some neat new 'sliding' features - slide in various directions on a character to produce other characters or even whole macros. Wonderful. eg. I have set up mine so that I can slide downwards on 'd' for today's date. I can slide down on 'h' for 'http://' or 'w' for 'www.' or 't' for my email address '[email protected]'. It also has a separate macro function which works like old WordPerfect macros - any combo of chars followed by the macro button can produce any text including multiline text.
The layout is optimised for pen input so once you get used to it, your stylus tends to drift across series of characters that commonly occur together eg 'ion', - when you go back to using the qwerty layout, it is striking how much farther you have to move the stylus across the keyboard. (And no, it doesn not affect your ten finger touch typing).
We have done some speed testing on our users - most users average 20-25 words/min with Graffiti or Qwerty but after a little practice, 40 wpm is common with Fitaly.
Highly recommended. BTW, I have no vested interest in Fitaly - this is entirely unsolicited.
dt
www.pocketprof.org
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04-12-2002, 07:36 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 980
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What about wordlogic (www.wordlogic.net). Use it and I like the capability of guessing the words using an English or Spanish dictionary if I need it. Also I can set it as a default input method so I don't have to change it back after a softreset.
8)
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04-12-2002, 07:41 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 17
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Favorite input method
I've tried them all, but I still come back to the plain old keyboard (small).
In order:
small keyboard
Calligrapher (comes in handy for some handwriting needs; also, the newer versions have a popup keyboard that I'll use, too)
Thumb keyboard (for longer text input)
Foldable keyboard (tried but never use anymore due to the fact that the keys are too plasticy and the keyboard doesn't lock in place -- it tends to bend).
Regards.
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04-12-2002, 07:41 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 194
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In order:
1. Transcriber
2. Typango
3. QWERTY Large Keys/Gestures, w/ word complete
Even though I'm a leftie, I get excellent results with Transcriber.
RickP in AZ
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Linear Mode
