Re: Optimized letter layout for smart phones???

Draco Rat <[email protected]> Thu, 3 Apr 2014 17:09:42 -0700
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There is also a right-handed Dvorak and a left-handed Dvorak arrangement,
however, they assume that you will have four fingers on the home row -
whereas with a phone you usually just use a thumb.


On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 12:53 PM, David R. Herz <[email protected]> wrote:

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> finger (the thumb). I have a Dvorak set up on my cell-phone, but that's
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> sense, perhaps even optimized for swiping various letter combinations.
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> Just my thought for the day,
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> David Herz
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Bet Rimon, Israel <br>
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