[Electronics-talk] Seeking Suggestions TO Improve Dial Speed

[Christopher Chaltain]

I tried the touch typing, and I probably need to give it a longer trial,
but I prefer the split tapping method myself. I like not having to lift
my finger off of the screen at all. For example, when typing the work
"week", I don't have to lift my finger from the screen to get those two
e's in their. I can just tap with another finger twice while I'm
touching the e key. Like the Apple documentation says, try the different
ways of typing and use whatever works for you.

On 19/04/12 14:01, William T. Miller wrote:
> 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
> 
> ------------------------------
> 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
> 
> 
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Christopher (CJ)
chaltain at gmail.com