OT: Keyboards (< computer keyboard advertisement mentions Quenya)

> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Mark J. Reed
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:31 AM,  <li_sasxsek@...> wrote:
> >  I have a Blackberry pearl that I think has buttons that
> are too small.  The most annoying is putting the speakerphone
> button right below the End button.
>
> Yeah, they fixed that on the Curve.  The speakerphone button
> is now on the bottom row, next to the M, and it's an
> alt-shifted feature; personally I think it's a little too awkward now.
That does seem ackward. I've accdentally hung up on a couple people while trying to
put them on speaker. Not really much of an issue now that I spent a small
fortune equipping my car with Bluetooth capabilities. My biggest complaint
about the Pearl's input is the predictive typing. I can shut it off and use
mult-tap, but it defaults to the predictive mode all the time so I keep having
to force it back. There's also the issue with the side buttons being hit
accidentally. I disabled one of them, and set the other to show maps, which is
something I often need to access quickly.

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