engadget.com— Engaget goes hands-on with the Optimus mini three in this short review. Lots of product photos including retail packaging.
Aug 28, 2006View in Crawl 4
"In addition, think about programs like AVID or any game out there. Wouldn't it be nice to see all your voice binds clearly mapped in BF2, or something similar?"Only very temporarily. The point of hotkeys is speed, and NOT looking; otherwise, people just use the GUI. And keyboards can be had for what, $10? Probably less at wholesale, meaning that if funky keycaps were all that great, app vendors could offer a dedicated keyboard. In fact, plenty of editing apps do. For the likely price of one of these full OLED keyboards, you could buy 50 app-specific ones and sell them on eBay after you've learned the apps.And finally, if you're actually looking at the keyboard while playing games, you must get killed a lot.
Closed AccountAug 29, 2006
I recall apple having patented a similar keyboard design. Hopefully they'll have their own version soon.
Closed AccountAug 29, 2006
except this <a class="user" href="http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/">http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/</a>
Closed AccountAug 29, 2006
<a class="user" href="http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/">http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/</a>
lycolocoAug 29, 2006
STOP POSTING THE SAME LINK OVER AND OVER. Thanks-Mgt.
Closed AccountAug 29, 2006
I was expecting $60.
palmerAug 29, 2006
"In addition, think about programs like AVID or any game out there. Wouldn't it be nice to see all your voice binds clearly mapped in BF2, or something similar?"Only very temporarily. The point of hotkeys is speed, and NOT looking; otherwise, people just use the GUI. And keyboards can be had for what, $10? Probably less at wholesale, meaning that if funky keycaps were all that great, app vendors could offer a dedicated keyboard. In fact, plenty of editing apps do. For the likely price of one of these full OLED keyboards, you could buy 50 app-specific ones and sell them on eBay after you've learned the apps.And finally, if you're actually looking at the keyboard while playing games, you must get killed a lot.