I initially bought the Motorola Droid and the Droid 3 for their physical keyboards because I hate tapping away on glass. The keyboard stopped working in short order on my Droid 3, though, and I discovered Swype. I haven't been bothered by the lack of physical keyboards on the phone market since.
My brother told me that there's a woman who uses speech to text to send emails and texts at his work. He said it's very annoying. "Oh em gee dot dot dot can you believe she said that question mark what an idiot exclamation point smiley face ell oh ell"
I wish I could buy a modern phone with a sliding keyboard like my Droid 4. I've tried SwiftKey, Swype, Google Keyboard, etc. and for some reason they just don't like me or my fingers or something. Constant wrong word guesses. At least now I'll have a physical KB for my tablet (not a Tab 3)
@hallmike SwiftKey on my Nexus 7 isn't that much better. I don't know the answer, but maybe I just like a lot of uncommon words or strange phrasing. With the physical keys I can type easily enough (and thankfully SwiftKey puts the prediction bar when using it so I can correct actual misspellings and typos) but I've never seen an on-screen that can come close for me.
@davidgro@heartny ... yeah, that looks awful - it takes So much screen space even without numbers on the main page, and doesn't look like it does the swipe/flow thing at all. The problem isn't key size - it's prediction accuracy.
I initially bought the Motorola Droid and the Droid 3 for their physical keyboards because I hate tapping away on glass. The keyboard stopped working in short order on my Droid 3, though, and I discovered Swype. I haven't been bothered by the lack of physical keyboards on the phone market since.
Umm I have a clamshell and there was no choice for using the number pad…
My brother told me that there's a woman who uses speech to text to send emails and texts at his work. He said it's very annoying. "Oh em gee dot dot dot can you believe she said that question mark what an idiot exclamation point smiley face ell oh ell"
I wish I could buy a modern phone with a sliding keyboard like my Droid 4. I've tried SwiftKey, Swype, Google Keyboard, etc. and for some reason they just don't like me or my fingers or something. Constant wrong word guesses. At least now I'll have a physical KB for my tablet (not a Tab 3)
@davidgro Maybe try a larger phone - I have a Note 3 and the extra screen size makes the keyboard buttons bigger and easier to hit.
@davidgro Did you try Big Buttons Keyboard on your Droid?
@hallmike SwiftKey on my Nexus 7 isn't that much better. I don't know the answer, but maybe I just like a lot of uncommon words or strange phrasing. With the physical keys I can type easily enough (and thankfully SwiftKey puts the prediction bar when using it so I can correct actual misspellings and typos) but I've never seen an on-screen that can come close for me.
@heartny I'll look it up...
@davidgro @heartny ... yeah, that looks awful - it takes So much screen space even without numbers on the main page, and doesn't look like it does the swipe/flow thing at all. The problem isn't key size - it's prediction accuracy.
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If I'm using two hands, I slide out my Droid 4's wonderful physical keyboard, but if I'm using my phone one-handed, Swype all the way!
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DVORAK, naturally.