Re: [NTLK] Palm negative comments (was eMate vs Alphasmart Dana)

From: Jon Glass (jonglass_at_usa.net)
Date: Thu Dec 05 2002 - 14:54:43 EST


on 12/5/02 4:01 PM, Ben Wells at headwerkx_at_iprimus.com.au wrote:

> I've never used a Palm device long enough to figure out graffiti...
> occasionally I play with a friend's m100 and spend most of my time
> staring at the Graffiti hints sheet. But I could see, for some, that
> Graffiti's shorthand-style alphabet COULD perhaps be a very fast - if
> not particularly intuitive - way to input data.

There is another input method for the Newton. It's called Gesture Mosaic. It
uses simple, single-stroke gestures to form letters. Once you learn the
strokes, it is very _fast_. I timed my wife on my Newton once at 50
wpm--almost typing speed (she types about 65-70wpm). If you want a truly
fast gesture-based input method, try Gesture Mosaic. I wonder if you could
even license this thing for a new PDA... :-)

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Jon Glass
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