[Electronics-talk] Seeking Suggestions TO Improve Dial Speed

[Rob Tabor]

Hey Tarheel Will,
What can I say! A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do, especially when it's
Thomas Robinson, 'cause he be da man! Besides, we had to do something to
repay the heels for stealing  our coach. <lol> Anyway, thanks for the
suggestions. But seriously folks, I'm not sure how that "finger twisting"
swipe is supposed to work, which just means I have something to experiment
with on the iPhone.
Take care and best regards
Rob "Jayhawk" Tabor

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[mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of William T. Miller
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 2:02 PM
To: electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Seeking Suggestions TO Improve Dial Speed

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


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