Plausible, but I forsee that being a bit difficult with something like T9..
This is kinda like I was referencing on Twitter, except slightly different.
Tap and hold say 1 and four choices come up for 1, a, b and c within reach of the number 1, a mini-menu of sorts, but it would need to be fast and fluid. Could be displayed the typical N S E W locations, or maybe possibly a semi-circle which appears at the users preference of an angle?
Could have it be an option, so the user could go either old style T9 or with something similar to above.
You could add a quick toggle, on the mini-menu, to make the letters in caps? Maybe even if input is pressed and held the mini-menu doesn't go away, useful if the user is going to be using another letter.
One issue I see is not being able to toggle between standard onscreen keyboard and the portrait mode one. Is there a place to identify this? If there a way to make the portrait mode keyboard show up when the phone is rotated?
One issue I see is not being able to toggle between standard onscreen keyboard and the portrait mode one. Is there a place to identify this? If there a way to make the portrait mode keyboard show up when the phone is rotated?
Not really, which is why there is a note that we should improve landscape mode to be more usable.. somehow.
A dictionary for the T9 would be great.. Just like the other Nokia phones.. you double tap the # and it will turn on the dictionary then you can 344 for "egg" for example.. etc
Not really, which is why there is a note that we should improve landscape mode to be more usable.. somehow.
It's also impossible to make a third plugin which loads both, the normal landscape and the example portrait plugin, and shows up the correct one fitting to the screen rotation?
Don't know if you got my point, it's late here and I'm tired
It's also impossible to make a third plugin which loads both, the normal landscape and the example portrait plugin, and shows up the correct one fitting to the screen rotation?
Don't know if you got my point, it's late here and I'm tired
I'll not say it's impossible, but h-i-m is a bit complicated. If you'd like to give it a crack and see if it's possible though, by all means..
One complexity you'd have is to synchronise text etc between the two plugins when they're rotated.
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