The Mobile Phone Keyboard Olympics
Apparently there’s something going on in London in 2012 that’s costing a whole bunch of money and has got a lot of people all excited.
Alas, the Omio budget doesn’t stretch to Olympic sponsorship, let-alone building our own velodrome. Anyhow, who wants to watch a bunch of men chase each other round-and-round on bicycles, when you could stay in and watch our own Ernest Doku go thumb-to-button with greatest phones on the planet?
We lined up 6 of the best smartphones: the Apple iphone; the Samsung Omnia; the T-Mobile G1; the HTC Touch HD; the HTC Touch Pro (win this in our Touch Pro give-away) and the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1. We gave Ernest a set text to type - twice on each handset - so that we could take an average time.
Want to see what happened when Ernest got typing? Check out the video…
More details of the contest after the jump
The set text was…
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. But then, 27 of the lazy dog’s buddies arrived @ his kennel, paid a £15 entrance fee and partied all night with the quick brown fox. A good time was had by all.
Full disclosure: Ernest’s personal handset is an Apple iPhone, so that was the keyboard he was most familiar with. However, Ernest has trialled all the handsets extensively and was given a practice run on every phone before we started the stopwatch.
Tags: android, Apple, g1, htc, iPhone, keyboards, omnia, samsung, Sony Ericsson, Touch HD, touch pro, touchscreen, x1, xperia
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