question about handhelds/smartphones and Cyrillic

[Nora Favorov]

I can't speak for Blackberrys or Treos, but on a regular old Palm pda typing
in Russian is not (much) more of a hassle than typing in English. Toggling
is easy (done through a pull down menu in my version) and when you need to
consult the keyboard layout it's easy to display it. In fact you can just
keep it displayed and use your stylus to type (do Blackberrys and Treos use
styluses?).

Hope that helps.

----- Original Message -----
From: "lynne debenedette" <lynne_debenedette at BROWN.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 6:41 PM
Subject: [SEELANGS] question about handhelds/smartphones and Cyrillic


> A question about Blackberrys, Treos, etc.:
>
> Has anyone had experience using them in Russia / in Russian?  I assume the
> phone part would work fine, but what about the keyboard-related functions?
> Since they do allow actual typing of actual email messages, I thought I'd
> check.
>
> Thanks for the help...
> Lynne
> --
> Lynne deBenedette
> Sr. Lecturer in Russian
> Dept. of Slavic Languages
> Brown University
> Providence RI 02912
> email: lynne_debenedette at brown.edu
>
>
>
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