Re: Touchscreen based keyboard for laptop
Paul <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:51:20 -0400
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I still want to jailbreak it, in fact I have to to use it in India with BSNL service over there. I found a very thin card for $2.25 or so that fits under the sim to unlock the phone. I am still confused as to how it works and if it will or what? Paul jj Alix On Sep 15, 2010, at 6:43 PM, Edmund Ng wrote: > 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). > > -- > Edmund C. Ng > [email protected] > > "Old joke about the optimist and the pessimist: > The pessimist says, 'Everything is terrible. It can't get any worse.' > The optimist says, 'Oh, yes it can.'" > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To Post a message, send it to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [email protected]! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/altkeyboards/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/altkeyboards/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/