PCWorld: Keyboards are Key to Success
Ladies and gentlemen, salute our friend the real, physical keyboard. And do it while you still can. Lately I've been running into a spate of boneheaded products that are trying to dispense with the old finger-bender entirely.Take Microsoft's Ultra Mobile PC design--please! This scheme, as seen in Samsung's Q1 and the TabletKiosk Eo, gives you lots of ways to enter text: three incarnations of on-screen, no-tactile-feedback keyboards--two for a stylus and one for your thumbs--plus two modes of character recognition. Each of those methods, to put it politely, sucks. If you want a real keyboard, you can always hook up a USB model and learn to juggle--but you shouldn't have to.
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