{"id":2593,"date":"2012-11-28T04:08:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T09:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2593"},"modified":"2012-11-28T04:08:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T09:08:17","slug":"typing-on-tablets-7-vs-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2012\/11\/28\/typing-on-tablets-7-vs-10","title":{"rendered":"Typing on tablets &#8211; 7&#8243; vs 10&#8243;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2012\/11\/19\/my-kickstarter-experience\">this post<\/a> entirely using my Nexus 7 (a 7&#8243; tablet). I found that I couldn&#8217;t type well using it. I had to use it in portrait mode, and use my thumbs to type, which meant that it was utterly slow to generate a post.<\/p>\n<p>On my 10&#8243; iPad, I can comfortably type using the virtual\/on-screen keyboard in landscape mode. In portrait mode it is nigh impossible.<\/p>\n<p>In either situation, I&#8217;m naturally faster using a regular keyboard, and I do have an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002TMRZOQ\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B002TMRZOQ&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=colincharles-20\">Apple Wireless Bluetooth keyboard<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=colincharles-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002TMRZOQ\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> for this purpose.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now toying with the idea of getting a new iPad (retina display, 4th gen) or an iPad Mini. I&#8217;m enjoying consuming content on my Nexus 7. I wonder if I can justify creating more content on the iPad retina? Or do I just satisfy myself with a low-res iPad Mini, which will get updated to a retina display in a year or so?<\/p>\n<p>Others have written about the typing situation: <a href=\"http:\/\/isource.com\/2012\/11\/26\/typing-on-ipad-mini\/\">typing on iPad mini<\/a>, John Gruber <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2012\/10\/ipad_mini\">hunts &amp; pecks<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this post entirely using my Nexus 7 (a 7&#8243; tablet). I found that I couldn&#8217;t type well using it. I had to use it in portrait mode, and use my thumbs to type, which meant that it was utterly slow to generate a post. On my 10&#8243; iPad, I can comfortably type using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[147,1110,1456,1457],"class_list":["post-2593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-apple","tag-ipad","tag-ipad-mini","tag-nexus-7"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-FP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2594,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions\/2594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}