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msmobiles.com_robot
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 Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 6:27 am Post subject: Rumor: Sony Ericsson to use Windows Mobile |
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"Commercial Times" publication that is issued in Chinese language is reporting that Sony Erricson will sell Windows Mobile phones next year.
Couple years ago when we published a April Fools Day Hoax about it, t...
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seima
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| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:04 am Post subject: |
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| It would be the great idea of sony to use window mobile software. |
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Orcinus
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| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Let us hope only that Windows Mobile powered phones from Sony Ericsson will not have this awkward keyboard that is not a true QWERTY keyboard but requires one button to press 2 letters. This awkward keyboard was a reason why several Sony Ericsson smartphones powered by Symbian UIQ have failed. |
Just what the hell ARE you yapping about?
The "awkward keyboard" you're describing is, indeed, a true QWERTY keyboard. The buttons are really rockers and you press their left or right side to get each of the two letters. So, in reality, there are TWO keys for TWO letters.
Furthermore, there were no "several" phones equipped with such a keyboad - there was only one, with the second one introduced a month ago. The first one was M600i, the second one is the P1i.
Finally, the reason the initial batch of UIQ3 phones (three phones, again, only one of them having the aforementioned keyboard) didn't sell too well was the Sony Ericsson's buggy UIQ3 implementation. To make things even worse for your little theory, of the three SE's first generation UIQ3 phones, M600i was actually the most successful on the market. So much so, in fact, that SE decided to build the next generation flagship model (P1i) in its image  |
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wibbble
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| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Orcinus wrote: | Just what the hell ARE you yapping about?
The "awkward keyboard" you're describing is, indeed, a true QWERTY keyboard. The buttons are really rockers and you press their left or right side to get each of the two letters. So, in reality, there are TWO keys for TWO letters. |
Isn't there a Blackberry which uses the two-characters-per-key method to provide a 'full' keyboard on a slimmer handset? With an even halfway decent predictive text dictionary typing like that wouldn't be bad at all - certainly much better than using normal T9 predictive on a numeric keypad.
Obviously using a keyboard like that has already ruined RIM, since no one uses Blackberries... wait... |
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Orcinus
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| Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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There is. But unlike this one, it really does have half the keys and really isn't a full QWERTY keyboard.
I.e. you have to press the same key once for Q and twice for W, whereas on M600i and P1i you "rock" the QW rocker left for Q and right for W.
The interesting thing is, after a short period of adjustment, you actually start getting more words per minute with the Sony Ericsson's "awkward" rocker keys than on an equivalent keyboard with physically separate keys (like the Samsung i600's one), because the rockers are much bigger and easier to hit and because it takes less time to quickly rock a key left-right or right-left than move your finger from a key to a key when typing two sequential QWERTY letters. |
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