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.
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New input methods
- Another text input
- Dasher (Wikipedia link)
- Finger splash (Idea presented on OpenMoko community mailing list)
- HexInput
- MessagEaseST (YouTube demo)
- Morse Code
- Quikwriting
- Shape Writing
- Werner Almesberger's finger input suggestion (Draft layout as pdf)
- XMerlin
Patented input methods
- EdgeWrite
- Fitaly Keyboard
- Input method used by Garmin (Maybe patented?)
- SpeedScript
- T9
- TenGO
- AgileText
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 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).
Interesting hardware input devices
- Credit-card sized bluetooth keyboard (Note: apparently supports only Bluetooth Serial Port Profile and not HID; supportable, of course, but does Bluez handle these already as keyboards or would that require hacking?)
- Bluetooth laser virtual keyboard
- 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)