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Hi, I was wondering if anyone suffers from screen corruption when recieving an incoming call. My screen sometimes (maybe 6 times out of 10) will go into landscape mode and result in some corruption. It will revert to normal when I actually answer the call. Sometimes, I am unable to answer the call and the caller will be sent to voicemail even though I click the green send button.
Has anyone come accross anything like this?
Thanks.
Well, there is a chance that I am psychic... Are you storing your device in the supplied holster? It has been noted that the sensor which indicates the keyboard is fully out appears to be either magnetic or sensitive to magnetic fields. So it is entirely possible that it is getting temporarily switched to landscape as you drag it out of the holster.
Neat experiment to prove this sensitivity. Take your K-Jam, turn on the power. Now, with the keyboard stowed, take your holster flap place the fuzzy side against the back of your device and slowly move it up around the right-hand edge of your device. At some point along the way your device will flip to landscape.
Robert Harrold
Houston, TX
Ahh, its done magnetically? I was worried a microswitch would eventually wear out ;p
you are so true, it happens to me all the time, it even answers calls automaticaly, I thought I was pressing some buttons while taking it out of the holster but I tried your little experiment , it was positive all the time,
Now, how to solve this without throwing the holster away?
I notices that it happens more when the screen is facing inside, when I insert it screen outside it rarely happens!
you are so true, it happens to me all the time, it even answers calls automaticaly, I thought I was pressing some buttons while taking it out of the holster but I tried your little experiment , it was positive all the time,
Now, how to solve this without throwing the holster away?
I notices that it happens more when the screen is facing inside, when I insert it screen outside it rarely happens!
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Well, there is a chance that I am psychic... Are you storing your device in the supplied holster? It has been noted that the sensor which indicates the keyboard is fully out appears to be either magnetic or sensitive to magnetic fields. So it is entirely possible that it is getting temporarily switched to landscape as you drag it out of the holster.
Neat experiment to prove this sensitivity. Take your K-Jam, turn on the power. Now, with the keyboard stowed, take your holster flap place the fuzzy side against the back of your device and slowly move it up around the right-hand edge of your device. At some point along the way your device will flip to landscape.
Robert Harrold
Houston, TX
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Robert, I will pay to have you read my fortune any day!! Exactly as you said. Really gutted about having to ditch the holster, but I would rather be able to answer my calls effectively.
Thanks again, pal. Much appreciated.
simx said:
you are so true, it happens to me all the time, it even answers calls automaticaly, I thought I was pressing some buttons while taking it out of the holster but I tried your little experiment , it was positive all the time,
Now, how to solve this without throwing the holster away?
I notices that it happens more when the screen is facing inside, when I insert it screen outside it rarely happens!
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U JUST SOLVED MY PROBLEM
I JUST THOUGHT THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG WITH MY HANDS !!
or what i have is the top button on the right handside to flip between land and port, so when it does that you just press the button and it flips back right away!
There are a few things I'd change about the ergonomics of the Universal. I'm right-handed so I hold the thing in my left hand and operate with my right. Before this I had an XDA2.
- on/off switch should be on the right-hand side of the case, under the 'Enter' key and should be easier to find without looking (i.e. by feel only). In portrait mode it should be at the top of the machine
- the pen should come out of the case in the same location as it does for the XDA2, i.e. under the '->' key on the keyboard. In portrait mode I have to reach over the top of the Exec and fumble the pen out from the left side of the machine
- the phone answer/end buttons on the hinge are exactly where my thumb is located when I hold the phone while talking in portrait mode (I listen through my left ear), so I often press them by accident while talking. They should be at the opposite end of the hinge IMHO and they should light up when a call comes in
- camera lens is at the wrong end of the machine: in tablet mode but landscape (which is the only orientation the camera seems to allow :roll: :?: ) I hold the Exec with my left hand and press the shutter button with my right and in this position my left-hand fingers often obscure the lens. If the lens was at the SD-card end of the case I could hold the Exec comfortably in my left hand without obscuring the lens
I love this machine but I'm curious to know whether I'm the only one who finds it slightly awkward to use in some circumstances. Maybe because of the dual format (tablet/laptop) it'd be impossible to get perfect, but the above changes would help me a lot.
Kind of agree, but I'll adapt.
The other niggle - my lovely Proporta case, complete with belt clip - you leave the device in the case to use it. Perfect! Except the toggle for the belt clip is, of course, on the previously "flat" camera side, so I can no longer sit the thing on a desk to type without first unscrewing (and probably losing) the belt clip toggle...
Pah.
It seems that space issues dictate where the pen went.
Infact, if you look the end curves to go above the usb socket!
I used to laugh at the Magician owners when I had XDAII, i had a real stylus and they had a stubby little square thing.
Bah, i feel foolish now.
On the positive side though, just how many speakers does this thing have? I've counted four so far...
Two on the side edge (stereo), plus one above the screen in tablet mode, and then another one in the plain side where the holes are (above the Enter key when the clamshell is closed).
Just answered a phone call with the case closed and the sound was coming from those holes. So we can answer it both when the clamshell is closed and when it's in tablet mode. Awesome! No more dirty screen!
Does it automatically answer the phone if you open the clamshell to view the screen when it rings? Haven't tried this yet.
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Does it automatically answer the phone if you open the clamshell to view the screen when it rings? Haven't tried this yet.
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lol ive been meaning to do that for months.
and yup. ive just tested it, you can open and close as many times as you like, then close and press the green button.
no worries
the caller detials are nicer in wide and the pic is bigger im sure
Front aluminum sheet!!
Has anyone encountered the same?! I have used the phone with closed clamshell and many times when my sideburners got stuck in between the slight attachement edge of the metal sheet on the clamshel!
I thought it is inconvenient and now I believe it is so! The metal sheet is not properly glued to the phone body!!
Poor craftwork
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Cyber-mate said:
Has anyone encountered the same?! I have used the phone with closed clamshell and many times when my sideburners got stuck in between the slight attachement edge of the metal sheet on the clamshel!
I thought it is inconvenient and now I believe it is so! The metal sheet is not properly glued to the phone body!!
Poor craftwork
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Hehehe :lol:
It sounds funny, but I guess (like the points I made in my original post) it's a small irritation for you. Wonder whether they have bearded testers in the HTC factories...
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Hehehe :lol:
It sounds funny, but I guess (like the points I made in my original post) it's a small irritation for you. Wonder whether they have bearded testers in the HTC factories...
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Although it is funny but way too serious :wink:
Yet your suggestion for beard testers is recommended
Apologies for the odd title, it's hard to convey the nature of my question without a long explanation.
I have an Alpine right now. My main peeve with it is the fact that screen & button lock gets turned off as soon as I receive a message or call, allowing me to open any number of programs and connections whilst the device is still sat in my pocket - a real PITA when I have to have it on silent when I'm in uni.
I should be getting a universal in a week or so.
I noticed that the universal can be closed in such a way that the screen is not exposed at all. What I was wondering was if it is practical to keep it in one's pocket like this (yeah I have big pockets), preventing any buttons/icons being pressed when I receive a message/call when it is in my pocket. Can one still normally receive messages and calls when it is like that, and still be able to answer them conveniently? Flipping the screen over to answer a call doesn't seem like a big deal to me.
Bottom line, is there anything I should know about using the phone like this?
With the screen closed you can still answer calls.
If you want to check who is ringing you can lift the screen to check the number and then just close the screen again and answer the call with the answer button on the spine of the Universal.
Another advantage of this is that the screen doesn't gunk up as the exterior of the Universal is pressed against your ear, not the screen as happens with the Alpine.
I think, to answer your question, it is possible that you once the device is "unlocked" active, or in sleep mode, pressing the "call" button that is external on the hinge, can activate and make telephone calls in advertantly. though it is unusual.
in relation to pocket, it just fits into a top shirt pocket. in baggy shorts, with its weight, it tends to bang around a bit. in jeans and pants, its a bit big.
overall, as a phone it is functional for receiving calls, if you just receive all. opening the screen to see is a bit of a pain after a while. Setting ring tones for specific callers helps to ease this. bluetooth headsets are also getting to a point of allowing caller id.
There is a heap of "issues" posted around the website and some dissatisfaction with the device. but i am perfectly happy with it, and does everything i wanted, except sufficient memory.
simon_darley said:
I think, to answer your question, it is possible that you once the device is "unlocked" active, or in sleep mode, pressing the "call" button that is external on the hinge, can activate and make telephone calls in advertantly. though it is unusual.
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Not a big deal to me, that is surely much less of an issue compared to my current problem with the unlocked screen. As for the pockets thing I don't think it will be a problem either, I'm used to the Alpine so I'm sure this won't be much of a big step.
Thanks for the responses guys, I'll be receiving mine tomorrow
My brother is getting my Alpine.
Edit: One more thing - does anyone know if my Alpine's car charger (3rd party, very cheap) will work with the universal or do I need to get a new one?
So I bought this phone 2 days ago and it was working fine. But it quickly lost its "wow" factor after about 5 hours. I hadn't even installed any softwares on it other than what the dealer put into it, and in less than 24 hours I am already getting pissed at HTC. Oh yes, the phone is great and all, but HTC sucks at making phones.
1) Word completion was working fine in keyboard mode, but after switching to other HTC inputs and then back to keyboard, word completion with keyboard is now DEAD. Not even after a soft restart fixed it.
2) No light to indicate Bluetooth/Wifi switched on
3) No blinking light to indicate phone is running
4) Start menu doesn't have the "Click" sound
5) I can't assign the god damned GPS and footprint button to do something else, what a piece of crap!
6) TouchFLO isn't smart enough to detect if I want to select multiple objects, or if I want to scroll!
7) No option to do a software soft reset
8) Need to open the back cover to do a reset
9) Menu text IS WAY TOO BIG, HTC you blind idiots!
10) The system doesn't come out from standby when I receive an SMS, meaning I have to press the fragile power button to read it.
11) I can't uninstall TouchFLO or any of the other stupid HTC softwares.
12) Manuals were unhelpful.
I already feel like flashing the damn ROM from this phone, get rid of all that stupid HTC crap. Don't get me wrong, the phone looks sleek, display is nice, response is faster than most other Dopod/HTC crap phones, the scroll button is kool, camera quality is good, but it's just so damn annoying. I'm probably going to just give it to my girlfriend, whoever she will be. My Atom Exec still rocks.
Overall rating for this phone: 5.5/10
Apparently the word completion bug seems to be HTC wanting to replace the WM dict with eT9
If anyone has a way of fixing the word completion bug, and the GPS/footprint button assignments, I will be very much obliged.
UranusHertz said:
So I bought this phone 2 days ago and it was working fine. But it quickly lost its "wow" factor after about 5 hours. I hadn't even installed any softwares on it other than what the dealer put into it, and in less than 24 hours I am already getting pissed at HTC. Oh yes, the phone is great and all, but HTC sucks at making phones.
1) Word completion was working fine in keyboard mode, but after switching to other HTC inputs and then back to keyboard, word completion with keyboard is now DEAD. Not even after a soft restart fixed it.
2) No light to indicate Bluetooth/Wifi switched on
3) No blinking light to indicate phone is running
4) Start menu doesn't have the "Click" sound
5) I can't assign the god damned GPS and footprint button to do something else, what a piece of crap!
6) TouchFLO isn't smart enough to detect if I want to select multiple objects, or if I want to scroll!
7) No option to do a software soft reset
8) Need to open the back cover to do a reset
9) Menu text IS WAY TOO BIG, HTC you blind idiots!
10) The system doesn't come out from standby when I receive an SMS, meaning I have to press the fragile power button to read it.
11) I can't uninstall TouchFLO or any of the other stupid HTC softwares.
12) Manuals were unhelpful.
I already feel like flashing the damn ROM from this phone, get rid of all that stupid HTC crap. Don't get me wrong, the phone looks sleek, display is nice, response is faster than most other Dopod/HTC crap phones, the scroll button is kool, camera quality is good, but it's just so damn annoying. I'm probably going to just give it to my girlfriend, whoever she will be. My Atom Exec still rocks.
Overall rating for this phone: 5.5/10
Apparently the word completion bug seems to be HTC wanting to replace the WM dict with eT9
If anyone has a way of fixing the word completion bug, and the GPS/footprint button assignments, I will be very much obliged.
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Go and by Nokia phone then...
UranusHertz said:
7) No option to do a software soft reset
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Hold the power button pressed.
UranusHertz said:
9) Menu text IS WAY TOO BIG, HTC you blind idiots!
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You can change the font size, you know?
RE 10) and your device not waking up when you get an SMS. Go to Start, Settings, Sounds & Notifications, then click on the Notifications tab. Tap on the dropdown box next to 'Event', find and select 'Messaging: New SMS', then tick 'Display Message on screen' and hit OK : )
I do agree with most of the complaint. I am very very disappointed with this Cruise 2. I thought it is a smaller size version of the Cruise 1 (Polaris) except faster and more memories. But it is NOT! It has less buttons than Cruise and two of damn buttons are just useless. HTC sucks!
Ouzo said:
RE 10) and your device not waking up when you get an SMS. Go to Start, Settings, Sounds & Notifications, then click on the Notifications tab. Tap on the dropdown box next to 'Event', find and select 'Messaging: New SMS', then tick 'Display Message on screen' and hit OK : )
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I tried that option, it doesn't work
As a side note, I thought there was no blue LED to indicate Wifi/Bluetooth status, but last night, I saw a brief flash of blue, and then it never happened again. So there's definitely a blue LED there, but it's not used for Wifi/Bluetooth for some reason.
Anyone wanna trade phones with me?
UranusHertz said:
I tried that option, it doesn't work
As a side note, I thought there was no blue LED to indicate Wifi/Bluetooth status, but last night, I saw a brief flash of blue, and then it never happened again. So there's definitely a blue LED there, but it's not used for Wifi/Bluetooth for some reason.
Anyone wanna trade phones with me?
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Unless you want to get an older generation phone!
I also have HTC Touch 3G, it also have same annoyances.
First generation HTC phones has infrared, many buttons and LED's, Flash LED(s) for camera. Separate earplugs and power sockets. Metal bodies.
Then:
They took away the infrared, no more camera Flash light.
They cut the number of buttons.
They cut the LED's. Cut all the metal parts except the screws and printed circuit board contacts and copper traces, USB connector case.
They do make the phone smaller, lighter, more functions and more memories.
BTW, HTC have replaced the metal hook for phone string to plastic hook and smaller metal logo plate from Touch 3G to Touch Cruise(09).
I think the next version phone is going to be glassless and metal-less. Case will be just snap-on. The metal logo plate will be just a print on case or a paper sticker. They might attempt to use plastic USB connector. If anything has shorter lifetime, that means they will have better business. That might lead them to put a small timed self-destructive device just beyond the warranty period in the machine. They would love to cut the warranty time from a year to 3 months or better, 30 days. The new Sony laptops already ask customer to pay extra to extend the warranty period from 3 months to a year.
People want green earth but also want everything disposable! What gives?
I thought I'm the only one who's facing the problem of the blue led indicator.
What blue led indicator? There is no blue led indicator afaik...
Or do you mean the "lack of" blue led indicator?
By the way, you resurected a 8 month old thread!
Uranus, with everything you say about the HTC Iolite, I throw it out the window
Incidentally, my Iolite works perfectly and the problem of the dictionary (in Spanish) does not exist.
Regards!!!
I don't think uranus is still around here, his last post on the forum was in april 09... Again this thread is from that timeframe...
Great clarification!!!!
With some time and effort most of these annoyances can be solved or tweaked.....various good ROM's (Billabong) and many many software/tweaks around.....
What I do agree is that Polaris was more robust....but Iolite is better overall.....
In the end you can not produce a phone at reasonable price every-body is happy with.....
FC
i do truly miss a led that indicates that the phone is on
Will this help? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=371278
FC
Update:
Hi fellas,
After over a year, I finally decided to ditch this P.o.S. to my roomie. Things I've managed to fix:
1) Word completion, via a registry tweak in \HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Layouts\e0010409\
Ime File=\windows\compime.dll
Layout Text =COMP IME
(I am still using this solution today for my HD2 which I flashed on the same day I bought it, I can't stand that HTC interface I got all annoyed at it after 5 minutes LOL)
2 & 3) nueLED is cool, but doesn't work
4) Start menu still doesn't have the "Click" sound
5) I still can't assign the GPS and footprint button to do something else
6) TouchFLO have to be "compromised" with smarter apps.
7) Need to use 3rd party app to do software reset
9) Managed to modify the popup menu text. Still, come on...
\HKLM\System\GWE\Menu\Popup
10) The system still doesn't wake up on sms despite changing the registry key which enables wake up on SMS.
I'm MUCH more happy with S200 in contrast, only problem is the weak vibration.
As I was driving yesterday, I was frantically (and dangerously) trying to type a text message on my Vogue. As you people with phones that have no hard kb, you know how frustrating it can be to type a message, let alone while one is driving. Now I know that it's not safe to text while driving period, but there are certain times when it is necessary. I came across the idea of a D-pad keyboard. You would use the directional pad on the phone to select letters from a keyboard, and then use the center button to select that letter for input. While this would not be fast or efficient typing, this would help greatly to type messages when only one hand is free for driving, or some other activity, as it would give the user an actual button to press. Sadly, I have no programming experience whatsoever. I also don't have a steady source of income, so I cannot guarantee any donations if someone developed this. But maybe if enough people caught on to the idea and liked it, a bounty could be started for someone who developed something like this. I've uploaded some rough mockups of what it might look like.
drewden123 said:
As I was driving yesterday, I was frantically (and dangerously) trying to type a text message on my Vogue. As you people with phones that have no hard kb, you know how frustrating it can be to type a message, let alone while one is driving. Now I know that it's not safe to text while driving period, but there are certain times when it is necessary. I came across the idea of a D-pad keyboard. You would use the directional pad on the phone to select letters from a keyboard, and then use the center button to select that letter for input. While this would not be fast or efficient typing, this would help greatly to type messages when only one hand is free for driving, or some other activity, as it would give the user an actual button to press. Sadly, I have no programming experience whatsoever. I also don't have a steady source of income, so I cannot guarantee any donations if someone developed this. But maybe if enough people caught on to the idea and liked it, a bounty could be started for someone who developed something like this. I've uploaded some rough mockups of what it might look like.
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DONT. TEXT. WHILE. DRIVING. Especially on a touchscreen only phone. Not to mention your mockup would take extremely long to type out one word let alone a message. what you want would be to have multiple slides, first slide you can go either L or R with the full keyboard split in half. pressing L will give you a slide with the letters of q-t, a-g, z-v; R will give you y-p, h-l, b-m. from these slides you can go U, D, and R. U will give you top row of letters, D will give you bottom row of letters, just select will give you middle row and R will give you either number pad or symbol pad. minimum key presses is the key.
You should try the phone keypad, I find it alot easier when driving. Of course I still don't recommend typing while driving . But why I think would be even better is voice feedback. As you press a letter or key on whatever keyboard you're using it would voice the key you pressed then enter the character with a confirmation click sound when you release the keypress.
First off, please stop texting while you're driving. Why can't you just pull over and do it? Why risk your life and other innocent people because you're texting? NOTHING is that important for you that you can't just pull over to the side of the road and do all your texting there. Your idea is unique but pretty useless for your situation as well. It seems it will take a lot longer to move the directional pad and hit enter after the right selection with the middle button on that button decal. At the end, you'll still have to look at your phone while texting. How would you find the defendant if you were one of the juror in a jury, listening to some guy who seriously injured or killed someone because he was texting?
Actually, with an SIP such as TenGO this is an excellent idea.
one day i really needed to text while driving, i started typing.
suddenly i realized that the traffic stopped and i was so close, luckly my breaks could stop me on time.
other wise, i would never be here i guess.
since then, i never touch the phone while driving, the max is picking up the phone using BT Headset.
scary. be carefull, driving is not a game, you cannot load life back if mission failed.
anaadoul said:
one day i really needed to text while driving, i started typing.
suddenly i realized that the traffic stopped and i was so close, luckly my breaks could stop me on time.
other wise, i would never be here i guess.
since then, i never touch the phone while driving, the max is picking up the phone using BT Headset.
scary. be carefull, driving is not a game, you cannot load life back if mission failed.
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Yes, I understand your experience. And thank you all for all your replies. I'm glad a lot of people are concerned about the safety of all the drivers. However, I also stated that this could primarily be used in OTHER activities in which you only have one hand free or cannot/should not be fully focusing on your phone. I realize the risks of texting while driving, which is why I don't when in any type of traffic. I live in rural Indiana, where most of the times it's a wide open road with fields to the left and right and not a car in sight. I just thought this would be a simple solution if the urgency was presented where someone needed to send a quick text. I also think voice feedback would be helpful. Even better would be speech-to-text + BT headset. That would be the ultimate program for this situation, but I have yet to see anything close developed. Once again, thanks for all the input.
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You should try the phone keypad, I find it alot easier when driving. Of course I still don't recommend typing while driving . But why I think would be even better is voice feedback. As you press a letter or key on whatever keyboard you're using it would voice the key you pressed then enter the character with a confirmation click sound when you release the keypress.
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Phone keypad would be your best bet.
anaadoul said:
one day i really needed to text while driving, i started typing.
suddenly i realized that the traffic stopped and i was so close, luckly my breaks could stop me on time.
other wise, i would never be here i guess.
since then, i never touch the phone while driving, the max is picking up the phone using BT Headset.
scary. be carefull, driving is not a game, you cannot load life back if mission failed.
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lol.
wouldn't be cool if there was a giant reset button.
haha.
I agree with everyone though, don't text while driving.
In most of the states in the US it is actually illegal to do so,
and has quite the hefty fine associated with it.
There was this girl about 6 months to a year ago that was driving down the US 60 (in arizona) and was in the left lane of the highway, and ended up swerving all the way accross every lane of traffic and tboned a parked van on the side of the road that had overheated.
Inside that van were 2 adults, and their 4 children
(2 young teens and 10 and 5 yr old I believe, something around those ages).
All 6, and the girl texting, were killed upon impact.
They found the girl texting gripping her phone (with keyboard slid out) in her hands.
Moral of story, Population control.
JKJKJKJKJKJKJKJKJKJKJK!! I'm goin to h*ll for that one.
But seriously, I don't recommend texting while driving.
TEXTING WHILE DRIVING is good if you have set your vehicle in AUTO PILOT! XDDD
Ahh well, guess the idea is shot down by the community. I really meant it for more purposes other than driving, just thought driving would be one of them even though it's not recommended. I guess I'm just unsuccessfully trying to find some way for efficient, easier input on a touch screen like the Vogue. I have small fingers myself and I have yet to find a quality keyboard that I can get up to speed on. And yes the phonepad is the next best thing if the need arises. Has anyone seen anything close to being capable of speech-to-text? I'm probably dreaming here but that would be an amazing app that could probably make a lot of money
What could surely be possible would be for the 9 buttons available on the d-pad to correspond to a t9 keypad. Press up for abc, up-right for def and so on.
Definetly would like a d-pad keyboard! The more options the better. Check out a psp for reference.
jez83uk said:
What could surely be possible would be for the 9 buttons available on the d-pad to correspond to a t9 keypad. Press up for abc, up-right for def and so on.
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that idea sounds pretty good, except I'm pretty sure on the Vogue, or any other d-pad on a phone, there aren't diagonals (up-right, down-left, etc.) are there? Just up,down.left,right.
VLingo
A better solution to your texting while driving would be a speech to text software, have a look here. I have not tested it myself yet but it looks interesting and safer than the alternatives. Please don't risk other peoples lives.
And please vote in my poll.
Thanks for the link! I also voted on your topic.