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• :) kinda cool (Score:2)

  by hfb (74)

  now that I'm out of the us and in a part of the world where SMS is far more useful and used I might actually be able to use that for something. However, one thing to consider is the range of models of mobile phones and how they treat the special "." character as I don't think it's the same on a lot of them and not on my Nokia.
  • Re::) kinda cool (Score:1)

    by miyagawa (1653)

    Yes, Keymapping is customizable!
    • Re::) kinda cool (Score:2)

      by hfb (74)

      you haven't seen some of these new phones over here...and custom keymaps sound like work :) Maybe I'll just wait for the voice recognition to come up to speed.
      • Re::) kinda cool (Score:1)

        by miyagawa (1653)

        err, I mean you can customize key mappings inside Device::KeyStroke::Mobile, to fix the calculation with your model ;-)
        • Re::) kinda cool (Score:2)

          by hfb (74)

          oh, duh :) Hmm...it still may be some work but maybe less than reprogramming the phone prom :)
• Re: Device::KeyStroke::Mobile (Score:2, Insightful)

  by jmcnamara (659)

  Nice idea. :-)

  Maybe it would be useful to add another metric that adds a weighting for consecutive letters that occupy the same key and which require the user to pause as the letter is accepted.

  For example it takes longer to type "monom" than "minim" although the number of key presses is the same.
  • Re: Device::KeyStroke::Mobile (Score:2, Informative)

    by miyagawa (1653)

    Hmm. In Japanese mobile phones, users need to type [>] key or something like that to step to the next character. This module calculates this [>] as 1 keystroke.