Wishlist/Text Input

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Current version supports input using on screen keyboard. You can also use Bluetooth keyboards and with (battery) powered USB hub can also use USB keyboards.

Near computer can also use networking over Bluetooth or USB and then ssh into device or run X11 programs remotely and thus use whatever input possibilities other computer supports.

For further predictive text input information see: Predictive text wikipedia

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New input methods
Patented input methods
Text input method surveys

Here are some surveys / overviews of text entry methods that I turned up using Google:

Other ways to enter text
  • Once there is hardware with multi-touch screen support, gesturing with 2-3 fingers might offer interesting possibilities.
  • Use voice to dictate text
  • Use Optical Character Recognition and Barcode Recognition on an image that exists on the file system or via a picture that has just been taken (even if it is a temporary picture only for this purpose).
  • Dutton Speedwords
  • I thought long and hard how to make a keyboard fit on the Neo's screen with keys big enough for fingertips. My idea was to split the keyboard in half similar to how a Natural keyboard does, and use the Aux button to switch between the current displayed half. I will prepare a sample when I have time.
Interesting hardware input devices
  • Credit-card sized bluetooth keyboard (Note: apparently supports only Bluetooth Serial Port Profile and not HID; supportable, of course, perhaps using existing user space daemon kbdd Link Fixed)
  • Bluetooth laser virtual keyboard eventually could be built into the phone once more miniaturized.
  • Frogpad
  • Freedom Mini, apparently not manufactured anymore but still sold and works out of the box with Bluez' hidd. Has a spring-loaded hinge for squeezing a phone/PDA against the keyboard; seems like a Neo could attach nicely but don't have one to actually test. --Mjr 10:30, 15 May 2007 (CEST)
  • experimental ring-mouse
  • Livescribe's smartpen; could act as touchscreen pen + laser + regular pen + "intelligent" pen + OCR device. See this blog post.
  • Logitech diNovo Mini With backlight, blutooth, dual-purpose ClickPad, Dimensions: 152 mm by 90 mm by 27.5 mm (cover closed) (5.98-inch by 3.5-inch by 1.08-inch. Linux driver status unknown
Key logger

Please offer LKL Linux KeyLogger with support for text input on Openmoko. The availability of this software is important for Anti-Theft Mode.

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