question about handhelds/smartphones and Cyrillic

[Renee Stillings | Alinga]

Blackberrys definitely don't use a stylus. Treo might have the option as it
is Palm based. As it is Palm based, it probably can handle Cyrillic the same
way any other Palm does, which is fine if there is a stylus at least as I
doubt they have made the Treo with the Cyrillic keyboard for typing. Treo
has an even smaller keyboard and so I can't even imagine how they will do
the standard bilingual keyboard that is necessary in Russia. Even the newer
generation Blackberrys have a shrunken keyboard.

I have seen Russians now using Windows based similar communication deviced.
A colleague (in Russia) has one from Motorola, I believe. As that basically
is Windows CE, it surely can handle Cyrillic, but I didn't happen to notice
the keyboard. As it is being sold in Russia, it may well have a Russian
keyboard.



>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?).
>

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