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No matter how big or small a hardware keyboard could be, it will still excel over the experience of typing or poking on a screen keyboard.
Even chiclets style keys found on old-fashion electronic calculators are better than the screen.
First, you can have tactile feedback from a hardware keyboard.
You have to continuously stare at the screen for its popup inotification in order to be sure that you have keyed in the correct key.
Second, a glass surface is nowhere compared to a real key.
Third, screen keyboard needs a bigger screen, meaning small screens suffer from keys squeezed tightly, and prone to typing the wrong key.
Fourth, if screen keyboards are any good, then the optional inclusion of a jacket USB keyboard for tablets is indication that you just can't live without a real hardware keyboard.
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NOW, remember the Fn keys we find on full size keyboards?
THE HP Jornada handheld has 11 of those for accessing dedicated apps in a jiffy.
With a hardware keyboard, you can use a combination of Win-key, Ctrl, Shift, Alt or Fn plus any alphanumeric key assign to launch any app of your choice.
HIP KEYS (a small software, only 13Kb) makes it a breeze to assign the Win-key to 36 keys (alpha and num keys) as shortcuts for 36 apps.
The original hardware and stencil keys can also be modified to launch any app other than windows default.
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Ctrl, Shift and/or Alt can be combined with any key to display a list of apps currently running in the background.
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The best part of Windows CE is that you can multitask and cycle through all the background apps using a simple keypress. This makes slate PCs look like a dumb mirror.
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Hardware key combinations also makes it easy to close applications in one go.
And, I am pretty sure, Apple WILL surely come up with an iPhone that has a slide-out hardware keyboard.
First, you can have tactile feedback from a hardware keyboard.
You have to continuously stare at the screen for its popup inotification in order to be sure that you have keyed in the correct key.
Second, a glass surface is nowhere compared to a real key.
Third, screen keyboard needs a bigger screen, meaning small screens suffer from keys squeezed tightly, and prone to typing the wrong key.
Fourth, if screen keyboards are any good, then the optional inclusion of a jacket USB keyboard for tablets is indication that you just can't live without a real hardware keyboard.
. . . . . .
NOW, remember the Fn keys we find on full size keyboards?
THE HP Jornada handheld has 11 of those for accessing dedicated apps in a jiffy.
With a hardware keyboard, you can use a combination of Win-key, Ctrl, Shift, Alt or Fn plus any alphanumeric key assign to launch any app of your choice.
HIP KEYS (a small software, only 13Kb) makes it a breeze to assign the Win-key to 36 keys (alpha and num keys) as shortcuts for 36 apps.
The original hardware and stencil keys can also be modified to launch any app other than windows default.
. . . . . .
Ctrl, Shift and/or Alt can be combined with any key to display a list of apps currently running in the background.
. . . . . .
The best part of Windows CE is that you can multitask and cycle through all the background apps using a simple keypress. This makes slate PCs look like a dumb mirror.
. . . . . .
Hardware key combinations also makes it easy to close applications in one go.
And, I am pretty sure, Apple WILL surely come up with an iPhone that has a slide-out hardware keyboard.
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