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* [http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~jhw/text.html Text entry] A web page with a survey of text entry methods by John Williamson
 
* [http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~jhw/text.html Text entry] A web page with a survey of text entry methods by John Williamson
 
* Poika Isokoski, [http://www.cs.uta.fi/~poika/g/g.html A Minimal Device-Independent Text Input Method], has a chapter listing existing approaches ca. 1999
 
* Poika Isokoski, [http://www.cs.uta.fi/~poika/g/g.html A Minimal Device-Independent Text Input Method], has a chapter listing existing approaches ca. 1999
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* Trevor's Trinkets, [http://trevors-trinkets.blogspot.com/2007/07/five-finger-keyboards.html Five Finger Keyboards]
  
 
===== Other ways to enter text =====
 
===== Other ways to enter text =====

Revision as of 16:40, 24 July 2007

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

Wishes warning! This article or section documents one or more OpenMoko Wish List items, the features described here may or may not be implemented in the future.

Contents

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
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.
Personal tools

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

Wishes warning! This article or section documents one or more OpenMoko Wish List items, the features described here may or may not be implemented in the future.
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
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.