• After 15+ years, we've made a big change: Android Forums is now Early Bird Club. Learn more here.

Played around with a Droid 2 at the VZW store, wonder if the Fascinate has this feature?

Kabob

Android Enthusiast
Oct 7, 2010
523
40
Birmingham, AL
While waiting for customer service to call me at the VZW store last night I walked over to the Droid 2 and fiddled around with it. I wanted to see if it had Swype (which it did) an while testing it out I kept seeing these red circles appear behind the words I was typing in. I tried clicking on them and found what is (to me) one of the more useful features I've seen in the keyboard area: it zooms in on the text you've typed and lets you fine-tune the cursor placement. I'll admit, I am still learning Swype and quite often it will add the wrong word to what I'm typing and I'll have to put my cursor back to change it, a feature like the zoom on the Droid 2 would be amazing.

Any idea if that's a Motorola/Froyo thing or if there's a way to get something similar on my Fascinate?
 
I'm not sure if this will come to the Fascinate or not. If it does, it will most likely be by update or heavily customized ROM.

It seems to be a Motorola and AT&T thing.

The Samsung Captivate on AT&T has this. We do not...I'm not entirely sure why that is since it is a necessary feature.

I always thought maybe it was exclusive to AT&T/Apple, until Motorola did it...so now I just hope we get it to more Android phones soon!
 
Upvote 0
Hrm, it may be an AT&T thing but I didn't see any way to do it on my boss' Captivate. So is it safe to assume that perhaps it's just that Samsung didn't want it?

Hmm, weird. I remember walking into an AT&T store to play with the Captivate before the Fascinate came out, and saw this feature and it was part of the reason I bought the Fascinate hoping it would have it...

Maybe it was a dream, crap...
 
Upvote 0
Hmm, weird. I remember walking into an AT&T store to play with the Captivate before the Fascinate came out, and saw this feature and it was part of the reason I bought the Fascinate hoping it would have it...

Maybe it was a dream, crap...

Well...apparently one of us is delusional...or I'm too inept to work his phone and figure said feature out! :p
 
Upvote 0

BEST TECH IN 2023

We've been tracking upcoming products and ranking the best tech since 2007. Thanks for trusting our opinion: we get rewarded through affiliate links that earn us a commission and we invite you to learn more about us.

Smartphones