Thread: JollaMobile : Jolla continues Nokia's excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones
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eccenux is offline eccenux
2012-07-07 , 17:50
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#94
Originally Posted by lma View Post
Without even going into ergonomics, tactile feedback etc, there's no way around this: an on-screen keyboard eats badly into display real estate, and a finger-friendly one doubly so. If all a user wants to type are one-liners (SMS, twitter and whatnot) that may be acceptable, but for the rest of us a physical keyboard is a hard (pun intended) requirement.
There is a way around this and there is a prototype even which I've tried - you can have invisible keyboard (with larg "buttons"). That you can write without masking the screen. It's called SnapKeys... From what I've seen just now it's even beyond the prototype stage.

I'm guessing it's not perfect with all langauges but I think someone might come up with a solution to this.