[at-l] Sharp TM-20s: can you touch type on them?

[thornel@attglobal.net (W F Thorneloe)]

There is a detachable keyboard for Palm and related machines, but I wonder 
if the weight is worthwhile. The screens have steadily improved over the 
past couple of years, as has the print recognition. I use my Handspring on 
the trail, and input out the guts of my journals, then spiff it up at home 
or off the trail. If you know of certain phrases you will use, macros are 
convenient to save time - just like a real word processor. There are some 
word processing programs for the Palm platform, also.

I have never heard good things about the smaller PDA's and their little 
keyboards. The worse choice seems to be the cell phone/PDA combo's that use 
the numerical keypad as a keyboard.

OrangeBug

At 10:51 AM 4/30/2001 -0400, Kenneth Knight wrote:
>I know a lot of people are using Sharp Telemails and/or Palm Pilots on the 
>trail these days. I've
>seen the Palm keyboards and they're not bad but the screens seem to be 
>generally pretty lousy. I've
>not really had a chance to try the Sharp TM20 though. Can the keyboard be 
>used by a touch typist or
>will I find my fingers jamming on mulitple keys (I CANNOT hunt 'n peck)? 
>How is the screen?