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

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Saturday, 10 December 2005 at 13:25:13 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> 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..

It's certainly personal preference.  Sometimes I think the geek value
of things like graffiti and Quikwriting skews the balance.

>> 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)?

No, but when I do I'd be happy to use its keyboard.

> 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.

Yes.

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

Which is a real pain.

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

What's a Pocket PC in this context?  I thought that was another name
for a high-end PDA.  Do you mean s/PDA/PC/ in that sentence?

Greg
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