Re: Keymaps for Treo or other PDA cell phone?

2009/11/10 Marcus Brooks <[email protected]>
> Has anybody out there managed to find a PDA cell phone, like a Treo
> 755 or newer, from any provider, that supports Dvorak keymaps? I know
> there was a keymap for the old Handsprings, and I think there was one
> for Palm, but everything's a cell phone nowadays.
>
> I got email about this from someone, and I don't know what to tell
> them. I guess they're using an external folding keyboard like the
> Stowaway or somesuch, or they've got really tiny fingers. (I can't
> imagine touch typing on the phone itself, but I am a little ham-fisted.)
>
> I'd appreciate any suggestions; well, any I'm likely to get from this
> group.

Hi Marcus.

I can't help directly, but would be very interested in the answers you
get.  I have a co-worker with an iPhone, so we poked around on that.
No joy, but he's never attached a keyboard to it so that's not a
definitive answer.  A google search on the subject turned up this:

http://kasperowski.com/2008/05/iphone-dvorak-keyboard.html

Doesn't sound easy, but it would appear it can be done.  Comments show
there are problems, and the phone has to be jailbroken - which may be
deal breaker for some.

I think this is how you would have to tackle it: one phone at a time
on Google.  I would suggest they get a list of available phones, start
with the one they like the best, google it, and work their way down
the list until they find the best combination of phone and ease of
Dvorak installation.  I hope it works out for them.

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