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Nokia Shows Off Phone with Printable Faceplate
jonknee writes "Nokia is prepping a new phone that one-ups all the other attempts at face plates... you can print your own! Just place one of the template pages it comes with (you can buy more) into your ink jet, and make a nifty design that isn't mass marketed at every mall this side of the Mississippi. The template is perforated so you can get a nice fit around the keys. The phone looks pretty nifty as well: camera, flashlight, FM radio and about everything else." It might be fun to rename someone's keys as a practical joke, not that I've ever done it to anyone's computer keyboard.
But can you actually make phone calls with it?
... I recall hex editing someone's keyboard mappings (Windows) so that the misplaced keys still generated the correct letters.
Hours of fun, especially for touch typists =)
if you can video conference with it, you'll have to explain to you boss why you're laughing every time he calls you.
I thought to myself: How on earth am I supposed to dial with those keys?
Am I the only one thinking about this ?
Now I can keep my vi cheatsheet with me wherever I go.
Many, many moons ago the place I worked at had a computer tech with a bizzare sense of humor.
Every year in December, he'd replace the boss' keyboard's L with a J key. We'd ask him why, and he'd say "because this way you now have a Christmas keyboard".
"Huh?"
"No L".
*cymbal crash*
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
News for Nerds? What the hell?
What if the submitter had suggested a custom faceplate showing Natalie Portman, naked and petrified, eating a bowl of hot grits?