That's good news, we suppose, for folks who prefer the tactile feel of the Type keyboard.
Both keyboards are thin and light but the Type keyboard has the same key spacing as a standard desktop and laptop keyboards.
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And she will soon touch-type on the screen better than I type on a keyboard.
You can type with a keyboard or you can talk to the device and let Siri translate your voice to text.
After selecting your keyboard type, you'll need to specify the layout.
The sensor, or an array of them, would record the movement of your hands while they type against a keyboard projected by laser on your desk, or even in the space in front of you.
The device has similar features to the iPad, letting users click on applications with their fingers and type on a virtual keyboard on the display.
Right away I imagined a console-based true web browser where you use your iPad keyboard to type the way you would on a PC, and Kinect gestures stand-in for a mouse.
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That has opened the floodgates for startups like SwiftKey, which builds a predictive Android keyboard that tries to anticipate what a user is trying to type, and Snapkeys, a futuristic-style keyboard that consists of only four keys, to remake the keyboard on Android smartphones.
That it has a keyboard that lets you type easily and do your emailing effortlessly is no longer a differentiating factor.
The Iconia would let users type on a touch-screen keyboard similar to the iPad, or draw, flick and zoom with their fingers.
And when handwriting just won't do, there's the Text Notes option, which lets you type your thoughts on the virtual keyboard -- which suffers all the sorts of stuttering lags we've come to expect from touchscreen E Ink keyboards.
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Users can quickly type using the on-screen keyboard and navigate through the slate's features with the highly responsive capacitive multi-touch screen, or write naturally on the screen using an electromagnetic pen, making it easy to take meeting notes, create documents and reports in Microsoft Office 2010, or browse online.
It's all tablet work these days, and when I do need to type something I've got a keyboard on the case.
It's unclear if the PC430 will come loaded with said games, but if it doesn't, you can connect a keyboard up and... type stuff.
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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.
It then used this knowledge to create a predictive algorithm that guesses what you're likely to type next, suggesting three options above the keyboard as you go.
This is an app that lets you use a PC to configure your phone more quickly, since you can type out your credentials on a full-sized keyboard.
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For instance, the keyboard offers several handy tricks -- type "ld" to automatically insert today's date, "mypin" for the device PIN, "mynumber" for your phone number and so on.
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The RIM BlackBerry's tiny QWERTY keyboard works well for short messages (you type with your thumbs).
For the first time the traditional keyboard Blackberry users will it find easier to type on a touchscreen.
Despite the fact that we never mastered the keyboard, we were still able to frequently type emails and text messages fast enough to get ahead of the i607's ability to process individual characters, leading to a frustrating lag between what you're typing and what you see.
Still others install a soft bar between you and the keyboard to ensure your wrist stays straight while you type.
Oh, it sounds like GearLog was there to check it out: no surprise, they mentioned the keyboard is "infinitesimal... impossible to type on this thing with two thumbs".
In comparison, the iPad mating keyboard offered by Logitech is even smaller than the type cover, but it is more versatile because it is linked to the iPad by Bluetooth, rather than direct mechanical connection.
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"I can type much faster with my thumb than with 10 fingers on the keyboard, " asserts the chubby teenager.
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.
No, that's not nearly as fast as a keyboard--it took less than 40 seconds to type the passage in--but it was more than twice as fast as smART writer.
There are various kinds of keyboards to choose from, including a split keyboard which is nice for a large tablet where you want to thumb type.
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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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