Blackberry typing?

[jeneralist]

I just got a new PDA. This one has an itty-bitty QWERTY keyboard at the bottom, Blackberry-style, instead of handwriting recognition.

I've been touch-typing on a real keyboard for years, and suddenly I'm reduced to hunting and pecking with my thumbs.

Is there such as thing as a typing tutor for thumb keypads? "Mavis Beacon Teaches Crackberry,"

Comments

[dcseain]

I've typed with a Dvorak keyboard for a decade now. I hunt and peck when i have to use QWERTY, so i find the blackberry keypad no big deal. But i'm weird like that. :)

Basically, from my experience, one gets used to it, and finds that fingers other than thumbs can be used. I often find that holding it in one hand and typing with the other is often fastest, using the holding hand for shift and function keys.

[skyefyr]

Unfortunately, the keyboards are too small to "really" type on them. I just got a new Brother Ptouch for the office. This thing is really big for a labeler, and yet, too small to type for real on. Hunting and pecking is the only way. Don't have to use just thumbs, but still just as frustrating.