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Originally Posted by railroadmaster
I seem to agree with you on keyboards pretty much. I used to use the N810's virtual keyboard pretty often, and I liked the N800's virtual keyboard ok.
Well I have uses Nokia's hardware keyboard's and to be honest they suck the only time of I have seen Nokia get it right was with there eseries and cseries devices. The Nokia n97 had a horrible keyboard, the Nokia n810 had a decent keyboard, and Nokia n900 had horrible keyboard that is better than the ones found on the Motorola Droid and Nokia n97.
I was not using the lack of the hardware keyboard as a club to beat the Archos with, as you appeared to assume. I was thinking to myself, "If I buy this, will I like the keyboard?" I hope it's ok with you for me to think those thoughts. This does not make me a slavish member of the Maemo community.
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Originally Posted by geneven
Oh, geneven, you're just looking to get punished everywhere you go!
I seem to agree with you on keyboards pretty much. I used to use the N810's virtual keyboard pretty often, and I liked the N800's virtual keyboard ok.
I was not using the lack of the hardware keyboard as a club to beat the Archos with, as you appeared to assume. I was thinking to myself, "If I buy this, will I like the keyboard?" I hope it's ok with you for me to think those thoughts. This does not make me a slavish member of the Maemo community.
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Originally Posted by geneven
Sorry for the misunderstanding. We cool
I seem to agree with you on keyboards pretty much. I used to use the N810's virtual keyboard pretty often, and I liked the N800's virtual keyboard ok.
I was not using the lack of the hardware keyboard as a club to beat the Archos with, as you appeared to assume. I was thinking to myself, "If I buy this, will I like the keyboard?" I hope it's ok with you for me to think those thoughts. This does not make me a slavish member of the Maemo community.
. I'm just tired of people mentioning that. Android does have a very good virtual keyboard.
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Originally Posted by railroadmaster
It's just not a who's-better or what's-better kind of issue. Some users really want a hardware keyboard, some don't.
Well the Android virtual keyboard is pretty good I have no problems with it certainly better than the Nokia n900 virtual keyboard and I have tried the keyboard. Sorry I 'm just getting annoyed with people here constantly mentioning the physical keyboard. Well many Nokia devices didn't have keyboards the Nokia 5800, n800, 770, x6, and n8 all lack physical keyboards.
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Originally Posted by GeraldKo
I was very happy without a hardware keyboard on my N800. People talked about having "full access" to their screens -- it never seemed like that much of a problem to me -- when I wanted full access I just closed the virtual keyboard.
It's just not a who's-better or what's-better kind of issue. Some users really want a hardware keyboard, some don't.
But the N900 virtual keyboard just seems useless to me -- I hate it. I would LOVE a virtual keyboard that seems to be right for me. The Opera keyboard, for example, seems nice.
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Originally Posted by railroadmaster
Not quite sure who you are directing that to or really what your point is - but to me a h/w keyboard IS part of the specs of a device that would be an N810 replacement for me. Of course 'not every device is going to have a hardware keyboard' so once again not sure what your point is. You do seem a tad defensive when it comes to this device though for some reason.
Seriously why is it whenever there's a competitors with better specs and better price the Maemo community's only argument against it is having a hardware keyboard. Seriously not every device is going to have a hardware keyboard. It kinda reminds me of iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch owners whenever theres a better device that comes they always give oh my idevice it has more apps in its appstore b.s.
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Originally Posted by xxxxts
UMPC's are little too expensive for my taste and I don't like how you can't fit a umpc into a pocket.
http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/o...ype=prd_detail
Why?
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Originally Posted by geneven
Android has an excellent virtual keyboard.
I was very happy without a hardware keyboard on my N800. People talked about having "full access" to their screens -- it never seemed like that much of a problem to me -- when I wanted full access I just closed the virtual keyboard.
But the N900 virtual keyboard just seems useless to me -- I hate it. I would LOVE a virtual keyboard that seems to be right for me. The Opera keyboard, for example, seems nice.
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