Should The IPhone Have A Landscape Keyboard Mode?

Engadget has some new details about the iPhone and according to one of their insiders that has playing around with a pre-launch device and one of the tidbits most concerning to me was the experience with the touchscreen keyboard.

“The keyboard was simply described as disappointing“. Keyboarding with two thumbs often registers multiple key presses (two or three at a time) resulting in a lot of mistakes. The best way to type is with a single finger (as shown in most of Apple’s demos), but two thumbs is supposedly very difficult. After trying it for a number of days our source gave up using their thumbs.

You can see from the picture to the right that iPhone users probably won’t suffer from BlackBerry thumb simply because the keys are too close together to effectively text anything out with your thumbs.

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Written by Robb Dunewood on June 25th, 2007 with 7 comments.
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Win A Free Copy Asteroid Jane From RIMarkable And ClickGamer

For the first time in the almost three years that RIMarkable has been up and running we are running a contest where you can win a free BlackBerry game.

Asteroid Jane is a superb new arcade style game for the BlackBerry from ClickGamer and if you would like a shot a winning a copy all you have to do is write a review of Asteroid Jane and post it via the comments here on RIMarkable. We will pick a winner from the (legitimate) reviews on Friday and post it to the front page.

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Written by Robb Dunewood on June 25th, 2007 with 12 comments.
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