[BUGA] "Handwriting" (was: Mobile phone/PDA recommendations?)

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:55, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> So what we're really discussing here is: is the difference between
> more modern handwriting recognition sufficient to make a difference.
> I assert "no": I don't have an issue with the quality of the
> recognition, and I can't imagine that the number of stylus waves per
> character can be reduced to a point where it's faster than toy
> keyboards.

I think that is probably personal preference. eg how recognisable your 
handwriting is, how accurate you can tap the tiny keyboard, etc..

> Here, BTW, is a good reason to run X on your PDA: that way you can use
> x2x to attach a real keyboard to it when you're near another machine.

So you would only ever enter data on your PDA when you have it near a Real 
Computer (tm)?

I think the design of PDAs has in mind that you do extensive data entry on the 
real PC, then sync it over to the PDA.

I don't usually do that but that is mainly because syncing doesn't work very 
well with FreeBSD.


In any case you can get applications that will remotely control a Pocket PC 
from a PDA.

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