larrytxeast
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- Apr 7, 2011
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Well I feel rather silly. After only a week with my Coby MID7015 tablet (did I get the model number right?), in a moment of frustration I chunked it on the floor & broke it.
What inspired me to do that totally immature thing? Typing on the screen. Although I'm spoiled with my Blackberry's physical keyboard, I've gotten used to it on my Samsung Captivate, but for some reason--today anyway--I just couldn't type a freaking thing at all without making zillions of typos all over the place. Either I kept hitting the wrong letter or it would "lag" to keep up with me, with the screen pausing only to then go "you rtsxer" or whatever really fast when I caught up with me.
I am wondering if the resistive screen vs the capacitive is the reason why. I don't miss multi-gestures, the only one I used was pinch-to-zoom for enlarging links to be large enough to click on, but since the Coby accepted stylus input, I just did that if the links were small--no problem. But when typing out words, at times--not always, but at times (like today), the need to seemingly press the keys as hard as if I'm trying to squash Godzilla really seemed to hurt. I actually found I could type faster, often-times, on my Samsung Captivate, despite it being a 4" device vs a 7" device.
Angry Birds played okay on my Coby, I had learned how to root it and how to apply the graphics fix, all was well, but the "latency" with the touch-screen when doing many other things was somewhat aggravating, but ESPECIALLY when it caused me to type a bunch of goobly-gock.
$100 wasted, that was stupid.
I guess the question I have will merit a reply of "only you know if you can live with tablet PCs" or "grow up first, brat!" or whatever, but is typing on a tablet really this hard often-times and thus maybe I'm just "not a tablet guy," or is it a function of the resistive screen? If that's the case, are there other economical models which would do better, or am I perhaps better off waiting & saving up my coins for a Wi-Fi only Samsung Galaxy Tab? Assuming I still had the Coby, is there a compact USB-based keyboard which could've helped at such times, or would using that have defeated the purpose of having a tablet PC to start with (might as well have a netbook)? Or would maybe some form of overclocking it have helpd?
For the record, I had downloaded and installed the "iPhone Keyboard Emulator" as I had on my phone, its keys tend to be larger and easier to press, and yes--I had turned off the haptic & audible feedbacks so it would not have those as forms of lag/latency etc.
LRH
What inspired me to do that totally immature thing? Typing on the screen. Although I'm spoiled with my Blackberry's physical keyboard, I've gotten used to it on my Samsung Captivate, but for some reason--today anyway--I just couldn't type a freaking thing at all without making zillions of typos all over the place. Either I kept hitting the wrong letter or it would "lag" to keep up with me, with the screen pausing only to then go "you rtsxer" or whatever really fast when I caught up with me.
I am wondering if the resistive screen vs the capacitive is the reason why. I don't miss multi-gestures, the only one I used was pinch-to-zoom for enlarging links to be large enough to click on, but since the Coby accepted stylus input, I just did that if the links were small--no problem. But when typing out words, at times--not always, but at times (like today), the need to seemingly press the keys as hard as if I'm trying to squash Godzilla really seemed to hurt. I actually found I could type faster, often-times, on my Samsung Captivate, despite it being a 4" device vs a 7" device.
Angry Birds played okay on my Coby, I had learned how to root it and how to apply the graphics fix, all was well, but the "latency" with the touch-screen when doing many other things was somewhat aggravating, but ESPECIALLY when it caused me to type a bunch of goobly-gock.
$100 wasted, that was stupid.
I guess the question I have will merit a reply of "only you know if you can live with tablet PCs" or "grow up first, brat!" or whatever, but is typing on a tablet really this hard often-times and thus maybe I'm just "not a tablet guy," or is it a function of the resistive screen? If that's the case, are there other economical models which would do better, or am I perhaps better off waiting & saving up my coins for a Wi-Fi only Samsung Galaxy Tab? Assuming I still had the Coby, is there a compact USB-based keyboard which could've helped at such times, or would using that have defeated the purpose of having a tablet PC to start with (might as well have a netbook)? Or would maybe some form of overclocking it have helpd?
For the record, I had downloaded and installed the "iPhone Keyboard Emulator" as I had on my phone, its keys tend to be larger and easier to press, and yes--I had turned off the haptic & audible feedbacks so it would not have those as forms of lag/latency etc.
LRH