NotesBesides a mobile phone, the major applications were a calendar, address book, world clock, calculator, note pad, e-mail, and games. It had no physical buttons to dial with. Instead customers used a touchscreen to select phone numbers with a finger or create facsimiles and memos with an optional stylus. Text was entered with either a unique "predictive" on-screen keyboard or QWERTY keyboard. The Simon had an optional PCMCIA memory card.FeedUnfurl
Notes"A rash of e-mails regarding and hits to my negative review of the Matias Tactile Pro 2 leads me to write this positive review the Unicomp Customizer, a modern version of the Model M that IBM used to produce. Danâs Data explains why these âbuckling springâ keyboards are so nice"Unfurl
Notes"The Endurapro 104 has become one of the most popular members of Unicomp's growing family of keyboard products. The Endurapro features an integrated mouse, buckling spring technology and Microsoft Windows keys. The integrated mouse saves desk top space as does the sleek new footprint which is 20% smaller than our conventional keyboards."Unfurl
Notes"My All Things Considered story about the Model M keyboard is, of course, shot through with journalistic bias. I am unabashed in my preference for the metallic ring of an old keyboard's spring-loaded keys. I won't apologize for this partiality, but I will try to explain it."FeedUnfurl
Notes"Almost all keyboards made since the early 1990s are, frankly, no good. A tiny group of writers and hackers know better. They use vintage IBM keyboards. Ugly, built like tanks, and, most importantly, with a spring under each key, and which clicks when you press it."FeedUnfurl
Notes"The manual for Mental Blocks claims that, for both C64 and IBM, you put the diskette in label-side up. I thought that had to be a typo, since every single mixed C64/IBM or Apple/IBM diskette I have ever seen is a âflippyâ disk where one side is IBM and the other side is C64 or Apple â until I looked at the FAT12 for the disk and saw that tons of sectors in an interleaved pattern were marked as BAD â very strange usage."Unfurl
Notes"Come on Palm - it's great that you are sharing info in a blog, but you know that there are two critical bits of info missing here. 1) Why? 2) What (if anything) does this mean about Palm's ongoing support of java on devices?"Unfurl
Notes"The whole point about cloud computing is that it has to be effectively infinite - the more people want, the more they get. You can't do that with software that requires some kind of licensing payment, unless it's flat-fee."Unfurl
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