I type over 20 wpm on my RIM pager and am very happy with that; why would I switch to an AlphaGrip?
Because you probably don’t know what you’re missing. If you type faster at a desk, the thoughts that occur to you away from it, probably don’t take shape until you’re back at the desk. Most of us don’t realize just how desk-bound our thinking has become. So, you may be happy now with your RIM pager, but only because your expectations are limited to short text messaging. If, however, you expected to type as quickly on your handheld as you do at your desk, 20 wpm would be unacceptable. Remember when the TV remote control was first introduced: People said, “I don’t need it. I don’t change channels that much and don’t mind getting up and taking a couple of steps over to the TV when I do want to change them.” Now, few of us want to live without our remotes. We didn’t know what we were missing. Having said that, the AlphaGrip currently on the market is a USB device and, consequently, it does not work with smartphones. We hope to convince a manufacturer, however, to produce an AlphaGrip-enabl
