What is the input like on the Pocket PC - Grafitti? Pop up keyboard?
Good question...
There are four options for input.
Block Recognizer
Keyboard
Letter Recognizer
and Transcriber...
The transciber is supposed to be a hand writing recogniztion way of input, now, either my hand writing is too sloppy to understand or it just dont work right.
You are supposed to write anywhere on the screen and then it will recognize it and change to words when you stop writing. worked a few times for me, but has not worked to great this past couple of days.
The letter recognizer is sort of like the Palm way of imputtiing, there are three areas where you write, one where whatever you input is all CAPS, one area lowercase, and the other numbers. I dont like this because you have to write the whole letter out, unlike Graffiti, where if you want an A you just do the upside down triangle and it knows its an A, (hope, that makes sense)
and the keyboard, wells, that just an onscreeen keyboard, which is pretty damned good, and the letter keys are the perfect size.
and finally the Block Recognizer, this is exactly like the Palm, Graffiti, only as you write your letter you can see how you wrote it, it disappears instantly, so its not obtrusive (good word?)
So, i use Block Recognizer because i am so used to the Palm way of things. I wrote two long arse documents while at work, and in bed, and used a combo of the Block Recog, and the on screen keyboard. Its almost just as fast.... what i also like is that it will give you a suggesting for the word you writing. either 1 or 4 suggestions, i have it at 2. what i dont like is that sometimes it will suggest the long version of the word first instead of the short one, for examplle, i could be wanting to write protect, but it suggests protecting, so end up deleting the ing....
another thing i like is that the Note feature is like the Palm, where you write your note on the screen, but then you have the option to have it recognize your writing, but this depends on your handwriting....
so there is a quick run down on the inputting.....
more later...
