The Touch Pro’s keyboard, as you know by now, has a dedicated row of numbers at the top, which is a welcomed addition. Other devices with a slide out keyboard, to save space, have the numbers within the letters.
The keys are pretty small, but that said, they have a good feel with a soft plastic texture on each key. They make a satisying click sound when pressed. What I don’t like is that the “position” dots on F and J keys are very small, so sometimes it’s difficult to feel for the home keys when typing.
There are a few shortcut buttons if you use the FN key, like a shortcut to Opera Mobile, Connection Mangaer, SMS/MMS, and Outlook Mobile. As is the case on the front of the device, there are no soft keys. Also missing are user-programmable hot keys, or even a Start menu button or OK button. Heh - you’d think with so many keys on the Touch Pro’s keyboard, they’d have room for the important stuff.
August 22nd, 2008 at 6:43 pm
why would you need an OK key?? just hit enter. as far as the soft keys go, ummm…its a touch screen phone for a reason. (hint: so u can touch the screeeeeen). And why hot keys if u can have ur favorite programs right on the Touch Flo 3D menu? …….
August 23rd, 2008 at 10:18 am
The OK key is helpful when closing programs when the keyboard is out. The Enter key doesn’t do that.
Haha - you’re right, it’s a touch screen, but just like people use keyboard short cuts on a computer to be efficient and don’t use the mouse, I’d like to use keyboard shorcuts on the Touch Pro and not touch the screen.
Hot keys would be helpful so that if you’re in, say, messaging, and you want to instantly get to AIM mobile…you don’t have to go through several steps.
It’s all about moving around quickly =D.