05-16-2002, 05:14 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 3,060
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Ever Tried The WordLogic Keyboard?
http://www.handango.com/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=311&platformId=2&productType=2&catalog=0&sectionId=0&productId=22253
I know we've already spent some time discussing our favorite input methods for our Pocket PCs, but here's one that only a few people have heard of. The WordLogic Keyboard, while based on the typical QWERTRY layout, offers a couple of new twists to text entry.
First, this keyboard provides a bit more predictive capabilities than an ordinary keyboard. Like the standard keyboard, it suggests completed words as you type in letters; however, it also highlights individual keyboard characters as you type, suggesting the next most-likely character you'll need. Second, the WordLogic keyboard allows "chunking," a streamlined way to create compound words. By using a simple gesture, the user can "attach" words to each other, creating words such as "forefinger" or "government-supported."
Other features include:
� Rapid text entry using a soft-keyboard, no additional hardware to carry
� Colors indicate when to stop typing - red means stop
� 5 word chunks are predicted at a time
� 5 letters are predicted reducing search time for the next key
� Gesturing technology allows long words to be assembled rapidly
� Fully supports left-handed users with a special mode
� Supports multiple dictionaries at once (for example English and French at once!)
� Supports special dictionaries for medical, legal and other business needs
� Desktop tool allows personal words to be collected from documents, emails, tasks and other respositories
� Words can be added on-the-fly as you type them
� Support for over 45,000 words per dictionary in a compact size
I decided to give this a try for a little while and liked it. I'm not sure that highlighting the next most-likely character is important to most people with keyboarding experience, but I can see the chunking as being useful for people saddled with inputting technical or jargon-riddled text. I also like how easy it is to add new words to the user dictionary.
So, now I believe I've tried just about all of the add-in input methods available:
� AccessPanel
� Calligrapher
� Compaq Folding Keyboard
� FITALY
� Stowaway and other full-size keyboards
� Thumb-pad keyboard
� WordLogic
Have I missed any (that aren't experimental, like speech recognition)?
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05-16-2002, 05:34 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 137
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Hey Brad -
I just started using the Typango virtual keyboard (vboard?) that was reviewed here a couple of weeks ago - I really like it. If you haven't tried it, give it a spin....
www.previsionary.com
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05-16-2002, 06:13 PM
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05-16-2002, 08:36 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 980
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And it can be set as default input method!!!!
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05-16-2002, 09:59 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 54
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I love Typango
I tried Typango and I love it. I sold my ipaq thumboard. For me, I think it is the best input method for e-mail, word, journal, notes etc. but not for filling out forms. It is the on-screen keyboard and is the most portable.
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05-16-2002, 11:39 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 251
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> And it can be set as default input method!!!!
Ctitanic, I thought any SIP can be set as the default. One only needs to be careful that the default doesn't reference a file system not available, like no CF sleeve at bootup.
m.
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05-16-2002, 11:53 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 980
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Originally Posted by mmidgley
> And it can be set as default input method!!!!
Ctitanic, I thought any SIP can be set as the default. One only needs to be careful that the default doesn't reference a file system not available, like no CF sleeve at bootup.
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No. I have tested for my software many of them... And can be set: Block Rec., Letter Rec and of course Wordlogic. In some page I have read that Transcriber can be set as default but all my tests with this software have ended in a Hard Reset, the same with Calliprapher.
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05-17-2002, 01:02 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 47
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Finally a product that has a Dutch dictionary...
Finally a product that has a Dutch dictionary available as well, it already was a good product, but it forced me to use a very big personal dictionary. They released a Dutch dictionary a few weeks ago and as far as I know this is the only product that let's me enter in my native language! And it is VERY good at it! Big tumbs up to WordLogic :-)
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