12-01-2007, 07:24 PM
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Typing Up Close and Personal with ZoomBoard
"ZoomBoard allows quick and accurate typing on Windows Mobile Pocket PC. Typing on this keyboard is as easy as sliding finger on the screen. After you tap on ZoomBoard there appears a magnifying glass just above the keyboard with a zoomed image of letters. The magnifying glass displays the zoomed letters under your finger and the nearest letters as well. This way you know where to slide your finger to type the proper letter. The key highlighted with red in the magnifying glass is ready to type. Slide over the necessary letter until it gets red and release finger to type this letter."
Unless you use a full on-screen keyboard, typing with your fingers can be a little challenging. My big fingers don't help matters! Vito tries to make a way around that with ZoomBoard. It would be interesting to see how fast you can really type using this method. Download a demo here and see for yourself!
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12-01-2007, 10:22 PM
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A good concept and a nice attempt but frankly the keys are too small for comfortable typing. I suggest that the developer should come up with a skin with larger keys which will make this program truly useful.
In the meantime Cootek's TouchPal gets my vote for the number 1 SIP
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12-01-2007, 11:00 PM
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Originally Posted by srmz
A good concept and a nice attempt but frankly the keys are too small for comfortable typing. I suggest that the developer should come up with a skin with larger keys which will make this program truly useful.
In the meantime Cootek's TouchPal gets my vote for the number 1 SIP
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Isn't that the point? That the keys are small and it zooms to show what letter you are typing?
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12-01-2007, 11:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Bushrod
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Originally Posted by srmz
A good concept and a nice attempt but frankly the keys are too small for comfortable typing. I suggest that the developer should come up with a skin with larger keys which will make this program truly useful.
In the meantime Cootek's TouchPal gets my vote for the number 1 SIP
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Isn't that the point? That the keys are small and it zooms to show what letter you are typing? |
I agree with srmz--except I don't like TouchPal.
The zoomed keys are helpful, but still, a little bigger keyboard would be helpful for more accurate touching for those of us with bigger fingers.
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12-02-2007, 02:01 AM
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I've played with and purchased a number of keyboards and I do a lot of mobile typing... for me at least ZoomBoard BLOWS away everything else i've used... yes keys are small but if I miss I just shift my finger a little and I have the letter I want... fast intuitive and uber-cool
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12-02-2007, 04:49 AM
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Originally Posted by srmz
...but frankly the keys are too small for comfortable typing.
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If they ditched the border, they could get larger keys.
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12-02-2007, 04:55 AM
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Originally Posted by ctmagnus
If they ditched the border, they could get larger keys.
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From the screenshot though, it doesn't look like the handful of pixels saved could be spread out across the row. Plus, some devices have a higher ridge around the screen, making hitting the key difficult with your fingers. On my Axim, I cannot hit the OK button with my fingers...too tight of a space.
Paul
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12-02-2007, 09:30 AM
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I gave it a try for a couple of days. It seemed to me that for just normal typing it was more accurate than the built in keyboard. But the real problem is that the preview was so slow to come up when I pressed a key that it actually slowed me down, way down. Maybe this was because I'm using a VGA device (4700) I don't know. At any rate, it is un-installed now. Nothing to see here, move along.
I've been converted to predictive keyboards for a while now on my PocketPC. Last week I pitched ThumbKey against my current fav Tengo Thumb. ThumbKey has some strong points, particularly in guessing a head on long words. But in the end, after several days of trial, I'm still much faster on Tengo Thumb.
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12-02-2007, 02:38 PM
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Originally Posted by johnm
I gave it a try for a couple of days. It seemed to me that for just normal typing it was more accurate than the built in keyboard. But the real problem is that the preview was so slow to come up when I pressed a key that it actually slowed me down, way down....
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Thanks for the firsthand report.
Paul
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12-02-2007, 04:03 PM
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Linear Mode
