'Surprisingly, touchscreen laptops don't suck'
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 30th Nov 2012 21:54 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems "I was prepared to write that the Windows 8 interface was forcing unnecessary touchscreen controls on people who wouldn't appreciate them, particularly if they were simply grafted onto a traditional laptop. But the more I've used Windows 8, despite its faults, the more I've become convinced that touchscreens are the future - even vertical ones." I can see his point. I, too, have often felt the desire to touch regular and laptop displays, especially when doing things like photo and video.
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RE: Alone
by Kochise on Sat 1st Dec 2012 13:31 UTC in reply to "Alone"
Kochise
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2006-03-03

Lift your keyboard, flip 180°, tap the back, surprise !

Kochise

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RE[2]: Alone
by Vanders on Sat 1st Dec 2012 14:46 in reply to "RE: Alone"
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2005-07-06

That's no surprise. I think the point is that I don't need to read the screen through a dirty keyboard; finger marks all over the screen make it more difficult to read.

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RE[3]: Alone
by Kochise on Sat 1st Dec 2012 16:25 in reply to "RE[2]: Alone"
Kochise Member since:
2006-03-03

Point, and sliding your finger, your hand hiding the screen. To that extend, the Android keyboard is one of the worst stuff ever, even in its 4.2.1 Jelly Bean incarnation.

Correctly selecting a portion of text, especially in the edge of the screen/text is getting ridiculously hard.

Placing the cursor with no arrow keys, on a Retina-like display (Nexus 7) is a matter of a quarter of a millimeter. Just your breathing or even your earth beat can make the whole process rather spurious, you have to have sniper's abilities to remove your finger when the cursor, located beneath your finger, is located at the very location you were trying to reach.

Because like I said, with no arrow keys, you have to repeat the whole process just to get the cursor a character back or forth. Stunning that such an incredibly anti ergonomic keyboard is fitted into a mass product is beyond despair.

Not to speak about the auto-correction "features" that do not select the word you are currently typing but almost always select a wrong alternative with characters selected from the opposite side of the keyboard of the one you actually typed in, especially in landscape mode. Unbelievable.

Kochise

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