But what if there were a touch type experience that mapped to the full extent of your digital reach?
The keys on the deck are well spaced, but have very little travel making it hard to touch type, and there is a significant amount of flex to the board.
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It's also compatible with the same Touch and Type Covers as the Surface RT.
And she will soon touch-type on the screen better than I type on a keyboard.
Designed with smartphone users in mind, this interface combines touch-type and big screen functionality, creating faster editing and uploading to other devices and social media sites.
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One drawback so far is a shortage of applications that use touch, but the combination of touch and type does promise some relief from the chore of trying to type on iPad glass.
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Other touch technologies are experiencing market growth, such as combination-type touch panels which offer both pen and finger touch.
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While Windows 8 will work with a mouse or touch pad and a keyboard, it will be heavily oriented toward tablet-type touch-screen navigation.
Called Mountain Lion, it won't be as big a change as Windows 8, partly because Apple already has integrated a lot of touch gestures and tablet-type features into the Mac using the touch pad, and has given no indication it plans touch screens.
The Iconia would let users type on a touch-screen keyboard similar to the iPad, or draw, flick and zoom with their fingers.
To test its productivity chops we opted to go for the more tactile Type Cover than the Touch Cover we focused on in the Surface RT review, making this feel more like a laptop.
The Light Touch can turn that image into a touch-screen that you can type on or swipe through with the help of a holographic laser projection and infrared sensor at the bottom of the device.
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The thinner Touch Cover is serviceable but the physical Type Cover is a dream considering its size.
The Touch Cover is 3 millimeters thick, and the Type Cover is 5 millimeters.
You'd also want great mobile phone service, along with BlackBerry-type devices to help you be in touch with opportunities.
The two experiences are fundamentally different, especially since mobile touch-screens are essentially the most limited and limiting type of game controller on the market.
It is fairly easy to type with and I much prefer it to the touch model.
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If you tend to type between the O and P, the keyboard will learn this and shift the touch actuator to lie between the two keys.
That's not all, though, as there are plenty of references to a pair of stereoscopic cameras "of a type typically found in mobile phones and other compact devices" at each end of the touch surface -- allowing it to create depth maps.
Users can type in Web addresses or e-mails with a stylus on a pop-up keyboard on the touch-screen.
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