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ragnar	2009-09-02 , 13:09
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And we support 100% apps in landscape mode.

Some of our applications support portrait mode. 3rd party applications can support both modes, fairly effortlessly (looking at the Conboy example).

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ragnar	2009-09-02 , 13:13
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Originally Posted by ColdFusion

How about something like this:

Yes, T9 would work. It's not very fast, though.

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	zerojay	2009-09-02 , 13:14
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Originally Posted by ragnar

Yes, T9 would work. It's not very fast, though.

That's *SO* much more effort to use than simply rotating the thing and using the keyboard. Wow... this is amazing.

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	ysss	2009-09-02 , 13:25
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@ragnar: yes, and that would be fine if you can operate the n900 securely and comfortably with one hand, to fit some of the use cases mentioned before.

Anyway, the discussion seems to have gone around a few times already

I'm out...

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	qgil	2009-09-02 , 13:40
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Originally Posted by ragnar

Yes, T9 would work. It's not very fast, though.

Maemo 5 comes with a T9, used in the Phone application. It has the numbers and the characters as you find them in physical T9 keyboards.

What I don't know right now is whether an app could "ask for it" in portrait mode, or the work that would be needed to provide this.

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ColdFusion	2009-09-02 , 13:46
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Originally Posted by zerojay

That's *SO* much more effort to use than simply rotating the thing and using the keyboard. Wow... this is amazing.

duh... like said numerously you can't use the landscape keyboard with one hand while your other hand is busy holding a beer. And no, I refuse letting go of my beer for texting, I'd rather not text at all than letting go of my beer!

Maemo 5 comes with a T9, used in the Phone application. It has the numbers and the characters as you find them in physical T9 keyboards.

What I don't know right now is whether an app could "ask for it" in portrait mode, or the work that would be needed to provide this.

That would be great if possible!

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ragnar	2009-09-02 , 14:00
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Originally Posted by qgil

Maemo 5 comes with a T9, used in the Phone application. It has the numbers and the characters as you find them in physical T9 keyboards.

What I don't know right now is whether an app could "ask for it" in portrait mode, or the work that would be needed to provide this.

Actually you're perhaps (or am I?) a bit misled now.

Maemo 5 has the ITU-T keypad layout in the phone. T9 on the other hand refers to the algorithm where typing any number once tries to guess... there is "abc", and pressing it once predicts what the user means. ITU-T text input assumes press once for a, press twice for b, press thrice for c.

I haven't seen T9 on Maemo 5.