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  • Chief among them is the arcane text-entry system, which requires hitting directional arrows to move a cursor around a screen of letters and numbers, sele cting one and then repeating again and again to spell out an entire word.

    New TiVo Remote Tackles Clunky Text-Entry 2010

  • If you dread using your TiVo for text-entry searches and you'd like a better way of doing so, the Slide remote while pricey will save you from struggling with the old text-entry style.

    New TiVo Remote Tackles Clunky Text-Entry 2010

  • And, despite the aforementioned torturous text-entry method, the results are great – YouTube and the X-Series were made for each other.

    Hands-on Review of Sony’s X-Series Walkman | Sync Blog 2009

  • On the other hand, things like a rotten browser and cumbersome text-entry really drag an otherwise compelling package down.

    Hands-on Review of Sony’s X-Series Walkman | Sync Blog 2009

  • Strangely, one of the things that makes the browser so awful is something that I think could be easily fixed: there is no option to use a soft-QWERTY keyboard for text-entry.

    Hands-on Review of Sony’s X-Series Walkman | Sync Blog 2009

  • It needs to load about every line of dialogue, every move in battle, and the save game screen asks you if you want to delete any save for any game off your memory stick as default even though there's tons of free space, and made me enter the name for the file with the stupid PSP browser txt msg text-entry system every time I wanted to save.

    Spectral Souls - Resurrection of the Ethereal Empires tenshi_a 2008

  • It needs to load about every line of dialogue, every move in battle, and the save game screen asks you if you want to delete any save for any game off your memory stick as default even though there's tons of free space, and made me enter the name for the file with the stupid PSP browser txt msg text-entry system every time I wanted to save.

    Archive 2008-04-01 tenshi_a 2008

  • People who send text messages fall into two camps: the 50% or so who, according to surveys, like to have the “predictive” text-entry function on their handset switched on, and the other 50% who prefer the “multi-tap” method of tapping out one letter at a time.

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » 2005 A sight for sore thumbs? 2005

  • People who send text messages fall into two camps: the 50% or so who, according to surveys, like to have the “predictive” text-entry function on their handset switched on, and the other 50% who prefer the [...]

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » 2005 A sight for sore thumbs? 2005

  • In the first step, review your instructions, note your alotted time, and begin writing in your text-entry area.

    Consensus of a Million 2005

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