[GTALUG] 2 weeks on cell phone and chromebook... never again!

[ted leslie]

Nicely put, my beef exactly, and when i had a rim BB back in the day, i
think i was better off then now. i hope they put out a priv 2, or if i use
a priv 1, the keyboard is suitable to my fingers, as reading this just now
reminds next time in a phone store have to give priv a try. I didn't have
auto-correct on 10 year old BB, and i think i still could thumb out emails
at 3x the speed i can with my note 3. Or maybe someone will make a
slide out key phone if no priv 2 makes it to market.

-tl

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 9:19 PM, William Park via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 11:52:36AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
> wrote:
> > A pattern that I've noticed: people emailing from smart phones don't
> > read email as carefully nor do they reply as thoughtfully.  This may
> > be a win for them (less effort, more immediacy) but it is a loss for
> > me as a correspondent.
>
> Try writing email on cell phone, Hugh.  I would have thrown my cell
> phone against wall, if it wasn't so expensive.
>
>     1. You are using web interface, ie. yahoo.ca or gmail.com.  So, you
>     can <Backspace> to left, but you can't <Delete> to right.
>
>     2. You are pecking at 2.5in wide keyboard with your finger/thumb
>     which are bigger than a key.
>
>     3. After pressing a wrong key, you are trying to place the cursor at
>     the right spot, with your fingers that cover 2 lines vertically and 4
>     chars horizontally.  Oops, you placed it wrong spot.  Now, try to
>     move the cursor.
>
>     4. You typed it right, but phone's autocorrection changes it to
>     something else.  Again, go back to correct that typo.
>
>     5. My phone's screen is 5.7" Full HD (1920x1080).  So, I have the
>     same resolution as desktop monitor, but practically impossible to
>     navigate properly.  Clicking a link is challenge.  You spend all
>     your time zooming in, click a button, zoom out to see the page
>     properly, then swipe to center, zoom in to read text, zoom out to
>     see what's on the next page, etc...
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