> > And are any of the phone friendly for English input?
>
> Not very. For instance, it is a little impractical to insert whitespace
> between two words, and there is no such thing as the predictive input.
> Also you have to switch back and forth between letters and numbers,
> cycling through kanji and half-width katakana, not to mention mixing
> upper and lower case letters.
>
> Julien
I hadn't connected the inserting white-space problem with Kanji-Kana entry,
but of course, that makes sense. Written Japanese normally doesn't include
spaces. On my old au phone, I never did figure out how to do it. With my new
vodafone J-SH53, I can press the # key and then back one entry (left-mouse)
and hit the Function/enter button.
Replying to a message with the original text included, top-posting is
troublesome. If you simply move the cursor forward after finishing a word,
you will advance right over the carriage return and into the quoted text;
there is no insert mode, it's all overwrite. I have taken to
#,back,enter,#,back,enter,#,back,enter,#,back,enter,#,back,enter,#,back,ente
r a dozen times or so when replying to a message just to have a bank of
white spaces to type into.
That said, the Japanese predictive text is nice, but there is no English
equivalent on my keitai.
Greg Conquest
Received on Fri Jun 20 06:51:29 2003