07-11-2005, 07:00 PM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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TenGO Thumb - It's Tango for your Thumb!
"Using the award winning TenGO keyboard design, you now have comfortable thumb-sized buttons that allows easy and fast typing with one hand or two. All these plus a cool new look makes TenGO Thumb? One of the most convenient methods to input text on the Pocket PC! Say goodbye to your stylus and thumb your way to texting bliss."
Working off the successful TenGO Keyboard design, the folk at TenGO have just released TenGO Thumb - a thumb-friendly SIP for the Pocket PC. Neat graphics, VGA support and a smart input engine makes this one enticing product. A trial version of TenGO Thumb 1.0 can be downloaded from Handango. The full version is also available for $14.95. [Affiliate]
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07-11-2005, 07:18 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 618
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i'll def be giving this a try - i never was able to get good w/ fitaly and i'm in desperate need for something new...
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07-11-2005, 08:39 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 226
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Anybody tried this in Landscape to see how it works? I'm hoping they might be able to utilize the "wasted" space most SIPs have in Landscape.
If so, this might be a good alternative to Spb's Full Screen Keyboard - I really liked the latter, but my thumbs are just a little too big...
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07-11-2005, 08:55 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 108
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Am I the only one to care about getting thumbprints and dirt on my (protected) screen?
I remember about 20 years ago when touch sensitive screens first came in and everyone was excited about them. Until they realised that in about 5 minutes flat the users covered the screens in fingerprints, grease and dirt.
Then they died a death and have not come back in any mass market sense.
Just thought I'd add a dose of realism to all the excitement
LouisB
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07-11-2005, 09:13 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 349
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Sorry to throw a support question in here, but whenever I install a new SIP to test out, all I get is the standard keyboard that pops up. I could have sworn I read some fix or issue that was addressed, but this is annoying.
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07-11-2005, 09:24 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 118
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tengo
I've been using the previous version for quite a while now and am very happy with it. I never like the new kybd layout concept of Fitally, so I stuck with this SIP.
There are two things that would make this app perfect:
1) have it be the default SIP even after a soft-reset
2) have it work in PocketPuTTY and TermServices. I have to revert back to the default kybd when using these apps, mostly I would like TSC to work.
I will eagerly try this new rev and hope the above works.
AXE
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07-11-2005, 09:33 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 8
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I notice the HP 4700 & 4705 are not listed as compatible. I wonder if this is an oversight or a warning.
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07-11-2005, 09:43 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 349
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I noticed that Tweaks2K2 allows "TenGO keyboard" to be set as default, but it doesn't "un-grey" the checkbox for the TenGo Thumb. I suppose it's a matter of time until the Tweaks2K2 team open that up for this new version. It looks promising, even though I can't launch it half the time!
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07-11-2005, 09:46 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 21
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by QYV
Anybody tried this in Landscape to see how it works?
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It works in landscape -- but at least on my Loox 720 only one line of text is visible. Not a good solution, so I will be using it in portrait mode. I don't necessarily think that using thumbs on the screen is the only way to get good use out of this program; it works fast and well with a stylus.
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07-12-2005, 12:59 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 226
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Quote:
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It works in landscape -- but at least on my Loox 720 only one line of text is visible. Not a good solution, so I will be using it in portrait mode.
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WOW! I tried it and it is horrible in Landscape - you are right, only one line of text. It couldn't be designed worse for that mode...sigh...what a great input method otherwise, but for "two thumb" entry, I really want to hold my device in landscape. :cry:
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Linear Mode
