Re: [Project] Kbd/LCD device

[Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 29 May 2001 10:22 am, you wrote:
> > > Should the LCD be text or graphics
> >
> > I would say graphics.  This possibly makes things more
complicated
> > though? Text might be faster/cheaper to develop.
>
> Graphics.... the price difference is likely to be minimal and we dont
have
> to use the graphics capability straight away if we dont want to.
>
> > > How many keys do we want
> >
> > Are there are similar designs we can look at?  Things like Next,
> > Previous, Enter, Cancel spring to mind.
>
> Just a thought ...a lot of the use is going to be AV Control(esp. MP3
> selection). One of the more advanced fuctions we could consider would
be
> the use of a telephone style keypad with 2 abc 3 def etc.
>
> This would allow predictive selection of menus and even entering of
text
> for the real masochists.
>

I suggested this the other day, but using some logic similar to the new
Nokia
& Motorola mobile phones.

You just press the button once to type the message, and the likely words
are
displayed for you to choose. It is suprisingly accurate and must work on
some
kind of logic, because it gets words that aren't in a dictionary.

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