Re: Touchscreen based keyboard for laptop

On Sep 15, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Paul wrote:

> Dvorak is listed in the Keyboard area.  
> I found this actually right away. But it says "hardware Dvorak" I  
> don't even know why or what they mean but it doesn't do anything. Does  
> anyone know how to use dvorak exclusively, on the iPhone? It seems  
> foolish to be listed there but unable to do anything.

The hardware keyboard is for any external (e.g. Bluetooth) keyboard. Once upon a time you couldn't hook up and external keyboard but now you can. I think this feature was intended more for the iPad, but since they are now using the same OS, Apple made it available for the iPhone.

So far I have found that Qwerty is not so bad when typing with two thumbs, and it doesn't confuse my normal typing. But I would sure like to have it on my iphone--at least to try-- and on my future iPad touch screen.

Somewhere on the apple site there is a place to send nice suggestions for such changes. 

Fred,
(typing on my Kinesis keyboard,
yet at the same time somewhat interesting in the Truly ergonomic keyboard 
http://trulyergonomic.com/ (which is missing a Dvorak Dealy option))