Waited weeks for this and was so excited it finally arrived today. Unboxed it, put it on charge, and…nothing. Won’t boot up, no signs of life. He’s dead, Jim.
Now I have to send it back and wait who knows how long if I want a replacement. Probably just going to ask for a refund; I can’t wait another 4-6 weeks or wait for one to ship from the September batch. Ugh!
Mildly infuriating, highly disappointing.
😅 Should we enlighten them about other layouts?
Yeah! Where’s my Dvorak mobile tactile keyboard?
I will say, as a Dvorak user, I think it would be awful for mobile. I don’t know the mathematics for calculating it but Dvorak assumes four fingers per hand spread evenly across the keyboard.
I wonder what the most efficient layout would be for single digit letter pecking. I can imagine it would be different to both Dvorak and Qwerty, but what exactly it would be I don’t know. Maybe separating most likely next letters by side and having some consistency of vowels on one side, consonants on the other, but all of the stuff about rolls and sequences would be completely changed. Maybe differently sized buttons for more common letters, or reducing the number of shown letters to have a few flick letters that you swipe in a direction to get them? Maybe just having the top ten most common letters displayed as single buttons and then the remaining 16 as four swipe keys?
I’m a colemak typer and I switched my phone to it to help when I was learning and it actually works really well since it emphasizes alternating hands it makes thumb typing pretty fluid. It does also tend to have some finger rolls which really just feels like tapping as you move your fingers back to the middle of the keyboard.
Not to say there aren’t better, I was just surprised how well it worked
Sangaline/DGHP and NALMY come to mind. The first tries to optimise for uniqueness of gestures and the second for distance travelled, both meant for hand gliding typing
The sangaline article was great! I really liked their approach.
As someone who uses Dvorak on my phone, I would be super keen for this alternative
AFAIK FlorisBoard will support gesture typing with it soon (they already support normal typing with it) and it’s FOSS!
gboard and heliboard both have it. been using it for years. it’s awful for glide typing since you’re mostly just bouncing around the home row.
8vim (8pen), thumboard.
I gotta say, at first glance it looks terribly inefficient compared to glide typing on even regular QWERTY.