Re: Touchscreen based keyboard for laptop

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
> I also will use this phone out of the country, India. So I am only
> going to use it "unlocked" or jailbroken. Did anyone have success with
> this. Especially in iOS 4.1? Even when I return to the USA I'm not
> going to sign any contracts or pay for unlimited service. I need a
> plan that allows me to turn off or on the service as I like. I already
> have plans for that avenue but first it will have to be unlocked.

If you had kept iOS 3.1.x on the iPhone 3G, you could have jailbroken
it and installed an app from Cydia called iKeyEx, which would allow
you to install a Dvorak layout for the software keyboard. iKeyEx does
not work with iOS 4.

I did use the Dvorak layout for a little while, but there's no
advantage to it, when thumb typing. The layout I tried was actually
sub-optimal, since it ended up with too many keys on the top 2 rows,
so they were thinner, thus harder to hit. Ultimately, I went back to a
Qwerty layout for the software keyboard (actually, an alternate 5-row
layout that included the number row).

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