Input PPC

[CroCo]

Just out of curiosity I recently checked out some PPC devices in the local electronics market. The feel of the os is generally OK, but what I really did miss was a handwriting recognition input area. Maybe PPC doesn´t have it, or it´s well hidden, or is it so obvious and I was too stupid to find it? Well there is this collapsable keyboard, but I prefer handwriting recognition, which allows me to write without looking. Do PPCs have that or not? Wouldn´t make me change to PPC if they did, though. I am just a curious technophil:-)

[RD100]

PPC has 4 types of input built in.

1. Keyboard - miniture pop-up keyboard with typical qwerty layout

2. Transcriber - which recognizes your actual handwritting. You can write entire words in your own freehand handwritting, and Transcriber will convert them to printed words. Works great! Has a very high accuracy rate.

3. Letter Recognizer - Similar to Grafitti, but the writting area is divided into 3 sections to split out Capital Letters, Lower-Case Letters, and numbers.

4. Block Recognizer - Identical layout to Palm's Grafitti. Works just like grafitti.

You can also get other add-on input types (some are free) for PPC which give you other ways to key data. People are always developing new faster methods to use in place of typical qwerty keyboards.

[CroCo]

Thanks for this nice reply! So next time I´m toying arround with a ppc I´ll look for these input types. Where would I find them? The mini-popup-keyboard I found, but the others???

[RD100]

Next to the keyboard icon on the lower right corner of the screen is an up arrow. Press the arrow, and a small popup menu will let you chose the other input options.

[CroCo]

sometimes it´s just too simple:-)