Using 8pen...

[alexpgp]

8pen is a strange input method designed for smart phones, and it has a heck of a learning curve, but it's kinda addictive!

More later, maybe.

Posted via LjBeetle

* * *The idea of the 8pen input method can be illustrated with the following graphic:


Characters are entered by moving one's finger from the center circle into the quadrant of the desired letter, and then moving the finger in a roughly circular direction, clockwise or counterclockwise, crossing between one and four boundaries before returning to the center.

Referring to the graphic, the letter 'a' is entered by moving from the circle up, then counterclockwise to the left quadrant and back to the center. The letter 'x' is entered by moving from the center down, then clockwise through the left, top, and right quadrants, back into the bottom quadrant and back to the center. (BTW, the graphic does not reflect the actual layout, which appears to have been designed to consider letter frequencies so as to minimize finger movement.) A video at the 8pen site provides a more expansive demonstration of the system.

As I mentioned in the original post (above the asterisks, and writing using 8pen), the learning curve is a bear, but so was learning how to type (and I don't complain much about that now).

Progress reports as I progress. If I do.

Cheers...

Comments

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

Very interesting. I actually enjoy typing, though I don't do it much. I find texting to be quite tedious. I wish so much that it was as easy as typing. I know that I could get a device that would make texting the same as typing, but, alas, I only get myself the really cheap phone.