Comments on: Windows Mobile’s FNG keyboard!

By: Aunty Dan

Aunty Dan — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:58:55 +0000

Heh. Years ago I was working for a video game development company in the USA. They were finishing up a Star Trek licensed game and, as is the custom, were asked to throw a training level in at the last minute. Whereas the rest of the game content had been tightly controlled up until then, this last-minute addition seemed to be open to a little artistic license, so the team decided to put their names in almost undecipherable lettering in the technical-looking labels on the walls and consoles. Being game geeks however they didn’t use their actual names but the handles they used when playing Unreal and Quake on the LAN. The head programmer, an english ex-pat like me, went by the handle “F’n Brit”. Much to his chagrin a sharp-eyed QA person spotted this before the game shipped. However another English programmer at the same company managed to get the California DMV to approve the vanity license plate “B0LLCKS” for his car!

By: stardada

stardada — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:58:28 +0000

The first part FNG could stands for, what the GI’s in Vietnam coined as ‘F***ing New Guy’. So FNG KB, ‘New arrival to the Theatre of Operations that is WM 6.5, eager willing and about to soil his pants, when he attempts to enter text on this booby trapped, fox holed, 7.62 spitting, rice eating’ KeyBoard. If ever there was a warning from history, then stay away from WM 6.5, burn your draft card and try a Clockworked Apple or a Kubarked Android instead.

By: Steve Cassidy

Steve Cassidy — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:44:12 +0000

I’m sure they mean “FiNGer KeyBoard”. Which begs the question – what other kinds of keyboard did they want to distinguish themselves from? if that was meant to be a snapshot starting at “F” it would read “FGHVB”…