I think it's awesome but I have to admit I'm a newb when it comes to installing things outside of Market, but the warnings it gave me are acceptable? I had to allow unknown sources and when I activated Touch Input it warned it could be a key logger. I assume it's standard practice, but it got me a bit nervous ;-)
this is clearly the best touch keyboard for the nexus one, but how do you all think it compares to the swype system?
since I've been using swype for a while now it's kind of head to switch back to two-handed tapping. but there are some things that I don't like about swype, such as automatic capitalization, its slow delete key, and that symbols are a pain to type.
this is clearly the best touch keyboard for the nexus one, but how do you all think it compares to the swype system?
since I've been using swype for a while now it's kind of head to switch back to two-handed tapping. but there are some things that I don't like about swype, such as automatic capitalization, its slow delete key, and that symbols are a pain to type.
i gave this a shot... installed it... got it running no problem... but couldn't stand that keyboard... i found the symbols distracting on the main keys... and the suggestions block the main txt window... plus i prefer the dark look of the stock keyboard than the white keys of this htc keyboard...
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Had to uninstall the older one first, but otherwise it works like a champ. Haven't tried the voice input button yet, but resolution looks nice and landscape version is much better.
great I just woke my girlfriend up with the enter button....
I thought you'd be able to turn off the word suggestion box, but NOooo. The suggestion box kills it for me. Still waiting for a swype that doesn't FC. Could just be me though.
The more I use this the less I like it. One big flaw in my opinion is the fact that when you're in the Browser and you select the URL bar, the keyboard doesn't display the spacebar icon because it assumes that you want to enter a URL, thus spacebar is replaced with a slash. This should be a user option. It's like they forgot that you can not only enter a URL but search in this input field as well!
I also don't like how it tried to give you auto-complete options with your browser history. For e-mail and sms this kb is great, but it falls apart in the browser.
Last edited by NexusMMM; February 18th, 2010 at 09:45 AM.
Yeah, the workaround is to load the second keyboard, but it's one button press to get the spacebar, then another press to get back to the alpha keys...
Word of caution - I installed this, and personally didn't like it. But after uninstalling, things got wonky with my Nexus. Minor, but still some issues. ATK - the fonts got all small. BatteryLife - the coloured separation bars got all messed up.
I did a hard reset to fix. Luckily, I have online backup setup with my Gmail account. I personally won't be installing anything HTC anymore.
Word of caution - I installed this, and personally didn't like it. But after uninstalling, things got wonky with my Nexus. Minor, but still some issues. ATK - the fonts got all small. BatteryLife - the coloured separation bars got all messed up.
I did a hard reset to fix. Luckily, I have online backup setup with my Gmail account. I personally won't be installing anything HTC anymore.
I personally won't be installing anything HTC anymore.
Sort of ironic because you're holding a HTC manufactured phone in your hand
Are you sure it was the keyboard? I don't care for it either but perhaps I'll just switch input methods back to android kb instead of unistalling until this can be confirmed by other users.
Last edited by NexusMMM; February 18th, 2010 at 11:05 AM.
Sort of ironic because you're holding a HTC manufactured phone in your hand
Are you sure it was the keyboard? I don't care for it either but perhaps I'll just switch input methods back to android kb instead of unistalling until this can be confirmed by other users.
Oh I'm sure it was the keyboard, as things started as soon as I had it on there and after it was removed. Nothing else was done, nothing else was installed in the meantime. From install to uninstall, was only like 20mins. I didn't like the HTC kb right off the bad.
Ironic, yes, but in a way, no surprising, as the OS is PURE Android, and the phone, while HTC built, was built to Google's exact specs, and was designed and tested with Google's pure version (ie. no sense, no HTC anything) of Android 2.1.
I've learned my lesson. I won't even bother with Sense - at least not on my Nexus. If I bought a Desire or some other HTC developed and sold handset that was developed with Sense from the onset, that's a different story.
Oh I'm sure it was the keyboard, as things started as soon as I had it on there and after it was removed. Nothing else was done, nothing else was installed in the meantime. From install to uninstall, was only like 20mins. I didn't like the HTC kb right off the bad.
Ironic, yes, but in a way, no surprising, as the OS is PURE Android, and the phone, while HTC built, was built to Google's exact specs, and was designed and tested with Google's pure version (ie. no sense, no HTC anything) of Android 2.1.
I've learned my lesson. I won't even bother with Sense - at least not on my Nexus. If I bought a Desire or some other HTC developed and sold handset that was developed with Sense from the onset, that's a different story.
As much as I would love to jump on the Sense, I don't want to have to load a new rom every time there's an update. HTC is notoriously slow with their updates. It was a minor annoyance on iPhone with jailbreaking but there will be an even longer wait time here, so no thank you. I have faith that over the next year or so, Google will be adopting certain elements from the sense UI experience to make stock phone a bit more user friendly...
I have faith that over the next year or so, Google will be adopting certain elements from the sense UI experience to make stock phone a bit more user friendly...
Oh i agree! They already have with 2.1... it can only get better!
The main reason I like the HTC keyboard is because it has a comma button on the main screen. It's my own fault for needing to use proper punctuation in text messages; having the comma button there is very handy. I also like having the extra symbols there and easily accessible, but I wish it was like TouchPal where you could quickly hit a letter and swipe-up to get the symbol instead of having to hold the button down like you do now.
I don't know if they use the same word prediction engine or not but they seem to work equally well.
A quick way to test if this keyboard works better for you is to write out a few sentences and time yourself. I did and this is what I came up with. (I am notoriously slow at typing so don't make fun)
Test sentence (using suggestions) I did an average of 2 tries.
"This is a test of the new HTC keyboard versus the old Nexus One keyboard. Here goes nothing!"
On original nexus keyboard landscape: 40 seconds average / no errors
On original nexus keyboard keyboard normal: 44 seconds average / 3 errors
On HTC keyboard landscape: 34 seconds average / no errors
On HTC keyboard normal: 38 seconds average / 1 error
For me the new keyboard was faster significantly so I have switched.
Last edited by Catch22; February 18th, 2010 at 09:54 PM.
The more I use this the less I like it. One big flaw in my opinion is the fact that when you're in the Browser and you select the URL bar, the keyboard doesn't display the spacebar icon because it assumes that you want to enter a URL, thus spacebar is replaced with a slash. This should be a user option. It's like they forgot that you can not only enter a URL but search in this input field as well!
I also don't like how it tried to give you auto-complete options with your browser history. For e-mail and sms this kb is great, but it falls apart in the browser.
you can quickly hit the search icon and it switches to a spacebar.
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maybe I won't like Sense either 
(but I'll probably give it a try 
)
