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Canonical to demonstrate Ubuntu on phonesCanonical to demonstrate Ubuntu on phonesPosted Jan 9, 2013 19:17 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)In reply to: Canonical to demonstrate Ubuntu on phones by akeane Parent article: Canonical to demonstrate Ubuntu on phones Please tell me you are not joking about this. I don't know how many times I have had to read a phone number from a computer and dial it on the stupid phone dial which doesn't even follow the same standard as my computer's numeric keypad. Not to speak about dialing weird codes to get to everyday functions, and then redialing and getting back the whole absurd string of numbers. I don't know why computer phones are not widespread yet in this era of VoIP apart from the very inane Skype software. Dialing from the console on a computer would be much better than having a separate phone.
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Canonical to demonstrate Ubuntu on phones Posted Jan 9, 2013 23:12 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]
I wonder if there are any Android keyboard apps which allow flipping the number pad around. If they want to replace computers, could we at least get the saner number pad?
(A quick look around has come up with nothing so far.)
Canonical to demonstrate Ubuntu on phones Posted Jan 10, 2013 1:10 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
the hacker keyboard has the number pad (on the fn screen) in the computer (123 along the bottom) format.
Canonical to demonstrate Ubuntu on phones Posted Jan 10, 2013 1:24 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]
The one I see is based on the Gingerbread keyboard. I suppose I could file a bug against Android for a checkbox about it (hopefully it would affect the phone app as well).
Canonical to demonstrate Ubuntu on phones Posted Jan 10, 2013 1:26 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]
Now that I think about it, ATM keypads are also wrong. Probably the ones at the register at stores too (I don't use those for numbers, so I don't remember exactly). Little hope in getting those changed :( .
Canonical to demonstrate Ubuntu on phones Posted Jan 10, 2013 13:22 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] I have seen ATM keypads with both formats: 123 at the top and 123 at the bottom. And there are also those with a full keyboard, which follow the computer standard. So not everything is lost!
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