[IxDA Discuss] Tog on the iPhone keyboard

[Manu Sharma]

On hovering over iPhone keypad, Tog wrote:

>>> The iPhone needs a two-level touch-sensing system. That would
>>> allow the user to press lightly on the keyboard to cause the
>>> dialog balloons to appear, then press harder as they confirm
>>> that  the correct letter is displayed.

Todd Zaki Warfel responded:

> Except that it already does this. When your finger is on the touch
> screen, if you move over the letters, they balloon up.

That's correct you can indeed hover over various keys. Just slide
over the keypad without releasing the finger until you find the key
you're looking for. Gizmodo's Brian Lam demonstrates this neat trick
in this video http://tinyurl.com/2eqmuc and says it bumps up the
accuracy up to 99%.

Manu
New Delhi, India
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