Track ball with a with Touch Screen
- I was thinking about this, I know most users have one or the other touch or not, but sometimes it might be nice to have a option to use a trackball instead of just the touch screen for things.
a Hybrid might be cool
So here is the Idea , a Full Screen like Storm with touch screen and trackball
.. thoughts any one08-14-09 06:26 AMLike 0 - I was actually thinkin this today while using my Tour. thinkin scrolling down soo far sometimes to click on "ok" or "accept" is a pain.. if you could just push it with your finger would be soo much easier.. but I like my trackball as well.08-14-09 12:06 PMLike 0
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- Maybe it's codename will be hermaphrodite.
But in all seriousness, I don't think a trackball/touchscreen makes a lot of sense to me. I'd imagine it would be easier (and slightly quicker) to just tap your finger on the touchscreen where you'd like the cursor to be, as opposed to rolling it to it's posistion.
On the other hand, a touchscreen / qwerty keypad BlackBerry would be sick (not sick as in "sick-gonna hurl", sick as in "woah-cool").
I can type pretty decently on a touchscreen - better on a keypad... But the current BlackBerrys that I've tried all have my fingers still crying out "bigger KEYS would be nice for a change"!
A slideout portrait keypad hidden away under a Storm-sized touchscreen display? (Giving me the option of using either for daily tasks - not one-or-other, of course).
Sign me up!08-20-09 04:55 AMLike 0 - This is the third thread I've seen with this idea, and I wholeheartedly agree with the hybrid idea. I would totally drool over (not literally of course) any phone like that. Someone from RIM development better be trolling this forum and jump on it before the competition does. Lol.08-27-09 09:07 PMLike 0
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- damn i thought i was the **** who wanted this but its nice to see im not alone. When i started using this website i never really took a huge interest except for having the coolest phone but when I saw how cool the trackball phones worked i almost bought the 8330 but i just couldn't afford it at the time. Then i got to thinking that it would be cool to have a trackpad or a trackball between the four buttons on the storm...anyways i think its a good idea and would buy a phone that had a touchscreen+trackball/pad. If they could get a phone like the storm 2 with the same trackpad from the 8520/30 that would make a cool looking phone...heck i might even try to photoshop it to see what it looks like...08-30-09 08:29 PMLike 0
- You guys obviously have never used a treo before. Although the treo in itself has its own set of flaws, there are some great advantages to using a touch screen + directional pad. And yes, it can be done.
I think the perfect blackberry would be touchscreen with trackpad, trackball, directional pad.08-31-09 07:35 PMLike 0 -
- The tracball/pad and touchscreen qwerty combo would be my ideal phone too. The cursor would be much more accurate for things like text selection and pressing small buttons, while things like scrolling down and hitting large buttons would be ideal with the touch screen
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com09-02-09 10:17 AMLike 0 - You guys obviously have never used a treo before. Although the treo in itself has its own set of flaws, there are some great advantages to using a touch screen + directional pad. And yes, it can be done.
I think the perfect blackberry would be touchscreen with trackpad, trackball, directional pad.09-02-09 03:33 PMLike 0 - 09-03-09 09:44 PMLike 0
- I love that idea... If the essex has a touchscreen it would easily be the best blackberry ever
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com09-03-09 10:28 PMLike 0 - I'm on board with this, what you could do (on the storm) is make the physical buttons smaller and slide an optical pad in there that was also a button that would be freaking tits, sometimes when browsing i would love to not have to change to cursor mode how sweet it would be if it just had one there that activated upon touching it....09-04-09 12:05 PMLike 0
- damn i thought i was the **** who wanted this but its nice to see im not alone. When i started using this website i never really took a huge interest except for having the coolest phone but when I saw how cool the trackball phones worked i almost bought the 8330 but i just couldn't afford it at the time. Then i got to thinking that it would be cool to have a trackpad or a trackball between the four buttons on the storm...anyways i think its a good idea and would buy a phone that had a touchscreen+trackball/pad. If they could get a phone like the storm 2 with the same trackpad from the 8520/30 that would make a cool looking phone...heck i might even try to photoshop it to see what it looks like...09-05-09 12:41 PMLike 0
- I too am a past Treo owner ...... 3 actually and I dearly miss the combo. I left the Treo behind forever because I got fed up with all the problems and lack of support in the way of fixes and updates.
Along with many others, I would jump all over a similar device from RIM. The touchscreen is just so useful for sooooooo many things; I mean really, ever played BeJeweled on your BB Bold, Curve or other ........ It absolutley SUCKS! But I am not only talking about games ....... Again, any power user that has used a Treo will understand ......... But the current RIM touchscreen has got to go ....... It blows. I played around with a friends Storm and in comparison to the screen on my Treo's, my PPC's and other Palm devices, the screen on the storm is a piece of crap.
My Perfect BB:
-Real Touchscreen
-Full Qwerty Keyboard
-TrackBall or Touchpad
-WiFi
-GPS
-16gb minimum on board memory (not like the 1gb of useless memory on the Bold) I want to be able to use it for what I want ....... Storage AND Applications!
-MicroSD
-Dual Antenas as with the Bold
-Camera ....... They can stick it up their *rse, all phone cameras suck, use this space for something more useful
All in the form factor of the Bold or 8900 Curve.
And YES ........ I will have fries with that! lol
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com09-07-09 08:31 AMLike 0 - I'm totally with you on this. A portion of the touch screen (where the trackball/pad would be) can be the "gesture" area like on the Pre/Pixi. No need for a separate trackball/pad hardware. If you think about where RIM is going with the Storm 2 (buttons integrated into touchscreen), you'd realize that this would make more sense, and the likely direction RIM would take. Less is more.09-18-09 04:58 PMLike 0
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