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    Image of fluidexistence fluidexistence
    10/07/09

    In reply to This is "The Moment" For a Samsung Android OLED QWERTY Slider on Sprint
    Any idea if it's going to use 1.5 or 2.0? I doubt the Hero/Dragon is going to launch stateside anytime soon and I'm getting exceptionally itchy to make the carrier jump.
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    10/08/09

    @fluidexistence: the hero is actually coming out for sprint in the next couple of days....
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    Image of UnderLoK UnderLoK
    10/07/09

    In reply to This is "The Moment" For a Samsung Android OLED QWERTY Slider on Sprint
    Silly for them to announce this 4 days before the Hero hits on Sprint.

    Silly because now I have to compare them... pos
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    Image of Neight Neight
    10/07/09

    @UnderLoK: Get this and then flash the HERO OS onto it.
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    10/07/09

    In reply to This is "The Moment" For a Samsung Android OLED QWERTY Slider on Sprint
    Ah, the circle is nearing it's completion. Android phones on T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint. Anybody know of any AT&T Android phones? The only rumors I've found are the Lancaster, and they're pretty old rumors.
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    Image of TheCrudMan TheCrudMan
    08/31/09

    In reply to The Easy Way to Add an Onscreen Keyboard to Your Palm Pre
    Since it's a Palm product I expect to be able to write with a stylus, otherwise what's the point!
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    08/31/09

    @TheCrudMan: I remember learning Palm's Graffiti. It still didn't always work, but it was surprisingly accurate.

    Still, I wouldn't go back. I like have the best of both worlds on my G1.
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    08/19/09

    In reply to Samsung's Android InstinctQ For Sprint Spotted In Leaked Pics
    If it's on Verizon I want one!
    Will it do Exchange?
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    08/07/09

    In reply to Samsung Reclaim QWERTY Ecophone Is Ostentatiously Green, $50 On Sprint

    As much as I like corm, think I'll keep my regular toxic waste cellphone for now...
    But yeah, here in Brazil corn is also being used to make stuff like recyclable plastic market bags...
    And if I'm not mistaken, just yesterday I watched this technology article about a "green electric car" which used something close to that for the chasis material... pretty nice.
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    08/06/09

    In reply to Samsung Reclaim QWERTY Ecophone Is Ostentatiously Green, $50 On Sprint
    Super iconoclastic bioplastic!
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    Image of berbar berbar
    08/06/09

    In reply to Samsung Reclaim QWERTY Ecophone Is Ostentatiously Green, $50 On Sprint
    Corn again? For the good of man kind (specially Americans), corn lobbyists should all die.
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    08/06/09

    In reply to Samsung Reclaim QWERTY Ecophone Is Ostentatiously Green, $50 On Sprint
    I feel indifferent about using the word 'Green' everywhere. I've always been very environmentally conscious (although not hardcore treehugger type) and I both like and dislike the way the word 'Green' is thrown around. In many respects, it's great that environmentally friendly is the hip new thing to do. But is it now just going to be a fad that will soon go away? Are companies just using the word 'Green' in their product advertisments to boost their sales? It would be better if people really understood all the environmental impacts they have rather than just jumping on the 'green' bandwagon and deciding to buy things just because the manufacturers claim that it's a green product.

    *Note: I do like what Samsung has done with this phone though and the donation to the Nature Conservancy but then again it's only one product out of thousands that they sell and was likely just created for sprint as a marketing tool to capture the consumers currently wanting to jump on the Green bandwagon.
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    Image of I Party With Smoot I Party With Smoot
    08/06/09

    In reply to Samsung Reclaim QWERTY Ecophone Is Ostentatiously Green, $50 On Sprint
    It is a little annoying that the phone stamps every one of your texts with #iranelection, though.
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    07/24/09

    In reply to Hunt and Peck Keyboard Thinks It's Helping, But It Really Isn't
    What happened to Dvorak's keyboard layout?
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    07/24/09

    In reply to Hunt and Peck Keyboard Thinks It's Helping, But It Really Isn't
    If I'm not mistaken, the layout of the classic QWERTY keyboard was designed to facilitate speed in typing, based on how frequently certain characters are used in common English. Is this not the case?

    Also, I've had to switch between Hungarian and English layouts, and dammit if the switch between 'y' and 'z' doesn't leave me making mistakes for bloody WEEKS after reverting back to qwerty. Funny. Annoying, but funny too.

    Cheers, have a great weekend fellow Gizzites.
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    Image of Baldyman1966 Baldyman1966
    07/24/09

    @banmojo:

    It is not true that QWERTY was designed to facilitate fast typing, in fact it was quite the opposite. In the days of manual typewriters you had to allow time for each letter to move out of the way of the next, so the QWERTY layout allowed for the fastests typing posssible, but not fast enough to jam up the keys. in these days of digital keyboards ANY keyboard layout would be equal, but since we are used to the arangement of QWERTY there is no reason to change.
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    infmom promoted this comment Baldyman1966 was starred Baldyman1966 was unstarred
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    07/24/09

    @Baldyman1966 is Holding out for a Hero: I type fast enough to jam the keys on manual typewriters, something I learned from long experience.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    07/24/09

    In reply to Hunt and Peck Keyboard Thinks It's Helping, But It Really Isn't
    Touch typing is so deeply engrained in my brain that I type in my sleep (usually when work is super stressful). This would be like going back to square one for me, so I hope it never catches on.
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    Image of yogibimbi yogibimbi
    07/24/09

    @Curves: more to the point: what do you type on while you're sleeping?
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    07/24/09

    @yogibimbi: I do not know what I type, and when I wake up my hands are usually on the headboard or wall or something (sleep typing has horrid ergonomics). Someday they will have sensors to go on your fingers that eliminate the need for keyboards, and I will wear one to sleep, and THEN I will know. (This isnt as weird as it sounds, as I have vivid dreams, talk in my sleep and even sleepwalk.) Doesn't everyone?
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    07/24/09

    @Curves: Um...sure, Curves.
    *smiles*
    Yeah.
    *nods*
    Everyone.
    *slowly backs away*
     Reply
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    Image of malaklaze malaklaze
    07/24/09

    In reply to Hunt and Peck Keyboard Thinks It's Helping, But It Really Isn't
    i would take this over a french keyboard anyday
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    07/24/09

    @malaklaze: Now that's an annoying keyboard, very similar to ours, but just different enough to really piss me off.
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    Image of infmom infmom
    07/24/09

    @malaklaze: I learned to type on my grandmother's French Canadian typewriter and still sometimes look for the accented E key next to the P.
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    07/24/09

    In reply to Hunt and Peck Keyboard Thinks It's Helping, But It Really Isn't
    I gotta get me one! It'll make people stop obsessing over my computer so much, they'll just be like, "uhh huh, you gotta be kidding me?! I'd rather go to the library to look it up than type on that thing!"
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    07/24/09

    @tencommandments: My company has the ABCDE style arranged keyboards on their new forklifts. You will last about 15 seconds on it until you throw it out the window. My password is abcde, because it pissed me off SOOOO much.
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    07/24/09

    @Bull By The Horns: Is your password QWERT on a regular keyboard?
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