Simple navigation, texting and e-mail are enabled by a refined user-interface and fast text input.
The keyboard is physically connected, but the OS is completely disjoint from it aside from the text input.
Text input gets a fairly significant overhaul as well, representing a notable departure from common standards of controller-based typing.
Of course, Google wants to provide another option for text input that we haven't seen before the Nexus One.
For that matter, speaking to Siri is creating a text input to Siri.
Rather than offer a range of templates, the app goes straight for the lined notepad look and takes handwriting-to-text input only.
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If you're going to be serious about video on demand and your new search interface, you've got to make text input way easier.
Finally, new in the latest software release is the option to condense the keyboard on either the right or left-hand side of the screen for one-handed text input -- a feature that's been extended to the phone dialer as well.
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The biggest drawback is that you can't use the device on its own without a phone, but if you're a heavy browser user or need to do some serious text input, but aren't doing anything serious enough to demand a real laptop, the REDFLY might just hit some sort of sweetspot for heavy Windows Mobile users.
However, as the millions of active mobile text message users in Asian and European countries have shown us, consumers are willing to input text even with primitive keypads.
If you really want to input text, you can do that from within any messaging application like email or text.
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Once a machine translation system has been tuned appropriately, it can produce far more accurate results if the input text is more consistent.
Taking advantage of Webkit's integrated voice recognition, this thing will let you input text through the mic -- perfect for posting to Facebook or tweeting sans stylus.
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On each image, the watch lets you input text and numbers, up to 24 characters with each image--so you can keep track of the names and phone numbers of people whose pictures you take, for example.
By entering certain strings of text into user input boxes on Web sites, cybercriminals are able to confuse their commands with data in a site's Structured Query Language (SQL) database and gain control of it, says Grossman.
While Windows Phone users will find the tightest integration of all, the Android port still lets users steer through the Dashboard, input text, browse the web (with zooming), search for local content, and control media playback.
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The software is compatible with smartphones and tablets sporting Android 2.2 or higher and accepts both keyboard and voice input for text.
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They then built a lightweight piece of software which allows users to input any text and then adjust to have it spoken in various moods, from happy to frightened to angry.
Built-in handwriting recognition software converts input to text.
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Users are more likely to calm down and actually share their concern when they can navigate easily and type their input into just one text box.
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One method is to feed the zipper some text in one language, then switch the input to a different language.
An Apple official said all notes are text-based and there are no current plans for finger or stylus input.
Text corrections are also controlled via gesture control, with your seemingly garbled input transformed into the closest possible word match via a right swipe.
This "user intent" is then put to use, launching an additional app or performing the specified function, while non-speech input (presumably like the ability to correct your requests in text form) get a brief mention.
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In fact, we've found it hampers our workflow when attempting to compose an email or a simple text in Google Voice -- something the keyboard's Swype-like input mode handles with ease.
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