U810 Review

If you are using Microsoft Vista on your Fujitsu U810, then you will be able to take advantage of the Vista Tablet Input Panel. This is a great feature and I feel it is a lot better than the pen input features that Windows XP Tablet Edition had.

First off, the handwriting recognition for it is amazing. I have never used a better recognition software before. I have sometimes made some of the most awkwardly written letters and it still picks up on them. It uses its internal dictionary to make an educated guess as to what the word is and it will pick up on what you were writing. But this is not like a T9 type of recognition, so you won’t get it trying to fill your word in with guess that are totally off mark. It only makes guesses on what is similiar to what you have just typed in. For example, it won’t attempt to pluralize words if you didn’t write an ‘S’ at the end even if you normally type that word in plural.

Another nice feature of the Vista Tablet Input Panel is that you can backfill a word if you forgot a letter. In the past with many handwriting recognition software, if you forgot a letter in a word, you would have to delete the entire word and start from the beginning again. But with the Vista Tablet Input Panel you can fit a letter into the middle and it will slip the letter into the word right where you wrote it. This prevents unnecessary and time consuming retypes.

It is also very easy to use, which is a big help for the Fujitsu U810. When using the pen and writing in a field or form, when you place the cursor in the field a little box will appear that when clicked will bring up the Vista Tablet Input Panel. From there you can just start writing away. It is a nice feature that adds to the functionality that without it would make the device a lot tougher to use in tablet form.