PDA Troubles :(
Sunday, April 1, 2007
I own a Palm TX. Yes, it's PalmOS based. It annoys me looking and using Windows on a mobile device, it just feels...wrong ;)
Windows was built for a mouse in my opinion.
Unfortunately, PalmOS is not perfect either. Neither are the devices they make. I was at a business conference last night, trying to take notes. 'Trying' because half the time I would write something, and it would mess it up. Not because it interprets everything incorrectly, it just interprets some really common things incorrectly. Which is annoying to say the least. Oh and if I alter the pressure I use on the pad with the scribe while writing, it will often just result in a dot. It must think that I'm just tapping the pad. Sigh.

Common problems I've found in Notepad with the recognition:
- My 'u' often turns into a 'v'
- When writing an 'l' and doing a space quickly afterwards, it thinks I'm trying to do a 't'
- When trying to do a 't' it thinks I'm doing an 'l' and a space!
- If the letter is slightly off angle, it picks it up as the control character (diagonal slash), and if I fail to notice, it winds up doing some random operation when I draw the next letter
- Also as above, sometimes it will pick up the letter as the special character marker, and refuse most characters as input.
- It skips spaces a lot (i.e. I'll do a space and it won't pick it up!)
Windows was built for a mouse in my opinion.
Unfortunately, PalmOS is not perfect either. Neither are the devices they make. I was at a business conference last night, trying to take notes. 'Trying' because half the time I would write something, and it would mess it up. Not because it interprets everything incorrectly, it just interprets some really common things incorrectly. Which is annoying to say the least. Oh and if I alter the pressure I use on the pad with the scribe while writing, it will often just result in a dot. It must think that I'm just tapping the pad. Sigh.

Common problems I've found in Notepad with the recognition:
- My 'u' often turns into a 'v'
- When writing an 'l' and doing a space quickly afterwards, it thinks I'm trying to do a 't'
- When trying to do a 't' it thinks I'm doing an 'l' and a space!
- If the letter is slightly off angle, it picks it up as the control character (diagonal slash), and if I fail to notice, it winds up doing some random operation when I draw the next letter
- Also as above, sometimes it will pick up the letter as the special character marker, and refuse most characters as input.
- It skips spaces a lot (i.e. I'll do a space and it won't pick it up!)




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