[Electronics-talk] Seeking Suggestions TO Improve Dial Speed

[William T. Miller]

Hey Rob, thought I'd send you a suggestion despite your college affiliation
(I'm a little sore at Jayhawk nation after the NCAAs). It took me awhile to
adjust to the touchscreen on my IPhone 4 but I've gotten much quicker over
time. One adjustment that helped was switching to "touch typing" edit mode: 
1. from the home screen, press the circular menu button once to go to the
search page; 
2. make sure the IPhone is in edit mode with the on-screen keyboard active; 
3. make the two-finger dial twisting motion until you get to typing mode
(sorry for the nontechnical gesture descriptions); 
4. swipe one finger upward to switch to touch typing.
(Step 2 will work from any screen if the on-screen keyboard is active.)
Now you can drag your finger across the screen until you activate the
character you want to dial, then simply lift your finger off the screen to
dial the character that is active -- no double-tapping or two-finger
gestures required. 
Hope this helps. And take it easy on UNC the next time we play -- you've
beaten us twice in a row already!
Tarheel Will Miller

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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 06:37:26 -0500
From: "Rob Tabor" <rob.tabor at sbcglobal.net>
To: <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [Electronics-talk] Seeking Suggestions TO Improve Dial Speed
	on	iPhone
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Good morning all,

 

Though I have generally conquered the touch screen technology of the iPhone,
there is just one little albeit sometimes pretty steep hill to climb. In
using teletouch services involving entry of a long string of digits on the
dial pad, it seems nearly impossible to dial the numbers fast enough to get
the info I am looking for without being timed out by the system, e.g., a 16
digit account number to find out how much I owe in the current billing
cycle. I do own and use the Apple Bluetooth qwerty keyboard but the last
time I tried it with a teletouch service it did no good to try dialing on
the keyboard numbers, so I had to try to move to numbers with the arrow keys
and cord the up and down arrow keys to enter them one by one, and it still
wasn't fast enough. I currently use a 3G iPhone. Any suggestions for
wrestling the beast to the ground are well appreciated. Sometimes I miss a
good old fashion keypad for dialing.

TIA and best regards,

Rob "Jayhawk Bob" Tabor