“Forget the PDA, Here Comes the TDA”<\/p>\n
“Jackito TDA”<\/p>\n
According to a slashdot article<\/a>, a french company released the Jackito<\/a>, which, I quote:<\/p>\n “…new kind of PDA has no stylus, doesn’t offer handwriting recognition and has no keyboard. Instead, it is based on touchscreen technology and relies entirely on your thumbs for input”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n Honestly, do you guys think this can penetrate the market enough?<\/p>\n I don’t know if touch screen technology is “rugged” enough, but it seems to me that this TDA isn’t worth it.<\/p>\n No handwriting recognition would mean it should at least<\/em> have some rudimentary T9 style predictive input for it to function effectively as a digital assistant. I never even considered those small QWERTY keyboards built in PDAs (wether soft or hard) or select cell phone models as “input-friendly.” Let’s hope the french never considered using such a layout for their soft-kb.<\/p>\n Which brings me to my opinion on the matter: If you’re going the finger-pressing route anyways, why not just stick to the old, durable keypad-type input method? I think the TDA attempting to incorporate the same style input as your regular cell-phones et all without the physical buttons is just a cosmetic issue. After all, you get to use more screen space when needed.<\/p>\n But I do not deny that there’s nothing wrong with replacing even the regular keypad input with touch-screens, I just think that your machine wouldn’t last long, considering not all people have “sensitive hands.”<\/p>\n The stylus for me is just like the mouse in desktop computing. There must be so many alternatives to input\/user-interface, but the mouse simply does the job effectively. In a PDA environment, the stylus is the way to go for me (try writing freehand with a mouse). You get to use the stylus like a regular pen for writing; you get more precise<\/em> tapping (say like having to tap on those smaller “buttons”)<\/p>\n What do you guys think?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Forget the PDA, Here Comes the TDA” “Jackito TDA” According to a slashdot article, a french company released the Jackito, which, I quote: “…new kind of PDA has no stylus, doesn’t offer handwriting recognition and has no keyboard. Instead, it is based on touchscreen technology and relies entirely on your thumbs for input”<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n