http://www.osnews.com/story/15389/Review_TenGO_2_0_and_TenGO_Thumb Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:18:20 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?149087 http://osnews.com/thread?149087 I could not agree more with this review.

Tengo really is great.

The only downside with this application, is that not enough languages are supported. Now if Danish was added to this application (as they say it will be), I would buy it in a blink of the eye.

If you own a PocketPC and frequently use one of the supported languages, you *need* this application! Fri, 04 Aug 2006 10:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (-Anders) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?149164 http://osnews.com/thread?149164 or would that be to much to ask for?

ok, so it got a virtual thumb-board with the lastest software update but still... Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hobgoblin) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?149187 http://osnews.com/thread?149187 Is it any good? I notice it's the older 1.0 release of the software. Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rayiner) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?149218 http://osnews.com/thread?149218 From Tengo, replying to this: "I would have preferred an option to individually pick letters in order to make non-recognised words, instead of the current way of striking through individual letters."

This feature is in TenGO, TenGO Free as well as TenGO Thumb and is called Auto Non-Prediction, where the letters that are actually tapped on (picked) will be reflected as a word choice on the right side of the hint display. Thus a user can just create a word by tapping on the letters exactly and then selecting the choice on the right. Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?149223 http://osnews.com/thread?149223 As this desing allready requires some training. What would the benefits/costs be of replacing the qwerty layout with something else? Perhaps a layout optimized for predicatbility.Edited 2006-08-04 18:10 Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (John Nilsson) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?149224 http://osnews.com/thread?149224 That would be different for each language then, because each language has its own predictability rules. That would be a nightmare both for them, but also for the user who occasionally also types in english. Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?149254 http://osnews.com/thread?149254 I second that. I just sent the idea to them. The more requests they get, the more likely it will be ported.

http://www.tengo.net/tengo_contact.html Fri, 04 Aug 2006 19:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (brewin) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?149291 http://osnews.com/thread?149291 Count me in on the request for the Nokia 770. Please, port it. Please... Fri, 04 Aug 2006 23:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jedipapi) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?149359 http://osnews.com/thread?149359 Thats a good idea, and I am working on something similar, just need to test it.
I think that instead of forcing an old interface where it does not belong, the interface should be designed with usage in mind.
Example: no matter how cool it looks, there should not be a Qwerty keyboard on a PDA, palm-sized device, Origami for primary input. It is insane to think that a kb layout that was designed for maximum inefficiency is helpful. tengo does not bother much, because it is not really a qwerty layout. I think its a great way to get people to not rely on a qwerty.
Fitaly is good.
a split thumb qwerty keyboard is bad. if it was not qwerty, but had a layout designed for being split w/ 2 thumbs, thatll be different. Sat, 05 Aug 2006 03:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jesuspower) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?149391 http://osnews.com/thread?149391 ...is, were you able to use TenGO to write the review? Sat, 05 Aug 2006 12:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (StephenBeDoper) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?149403 http://osnews.com/thread?149403 I think it might be mission impossible with heavily inflected languages (such as those of the Slavic family). It would take some really advanced AI to get those right. An alternative is to offer (typically more than a dozen) different endings for each word, which would erode its usability. Sat, 05 Aug 2006 14:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jrlah) Comments