Not happy with keyboard on S2

[matt542]

Coming from a HTC Desire I'm really struggling to get used to the S2 keyboard , is there anything on the market which you would recommend similar to the Desire keyboard . I love the phone apart from this slight niggle , it's a massive upgrade from my lovely HTC .

Thanks for any suggestions

 

[evohicks]

Coming from a HTC Desire I'm really struggling to get used to the S2 keyboard , is there anything on the market which you would recommend similar to the Desire keyboard . I love the phone apart from this slight niggle , it's a massive upgrade from my lovely HTC .

Thanks for any suggestions

Hi, I did the same coming from the Desire and I find the S2 keyboard fine tbh. Lots of little settings in there, including swype (you don't have to slide you fingers in swype, you can still type) but there are lots of other keyboards out there in the market also.
What are you struggling with?

 

[matt542]

Hi, I did the same coming from the Desire and I find the S2 keyboard fine tbh. Lots of little settings in there, including swype (you don't have to slide you fingers in swype, you can still type) but there are lots of other keyboards out there in the market also.
What are you struggling with?

I haven't looked into Swype but I don't really like the idea of sliding too much . I'm basically a lot slower at texting and I keep spelling wrong , I used the auto-correct thing on the desire where I would hit the space bar so it was easier . The predictive text doesn't seem as good on this and the keys seems too large if that makes sense !

 

[henryronny]

Try gingerbread keyboard it's free and spot on. Unless you need to enter a

 

[heshanj]

I haven't looked into Swype but I don't really like the idea of sliding too much . I'm basically a lot slower at texting and I keep spelling wrong , I used the auto-correct thing on the desire where I would hit the space bar so it was easier . The predictive text doesn't seem as good on this and the keys seems too large if that makes sense !

thats wat i thought about swype too, but it really is amazing. give it a try first if not, there are many other keyboards on the market that u could try. just do a search for keyboards n check out reviews, etc.. like henry mentioned above, the gingerbread keyboard (keyboard from android 2.3) is very good

 

[B00001]

Try gingerbread keyboard it's free and spot on. Unless you need to enter a

 

[bonerp]

why on some keyboards is the area where the text is being typed too narrow so that you cannot actually see it, especially in landscape?

I have to switch keyboards between email and texting cos of this. Its a PITA.

My favs are smart pro and keypurr.

 

[henryronny]

there's no comma button on the screen, but press the full stop for a second & it takes you to the punctuation menu. if you release the full stop without moving to something else in the menu, you get a comma

 

[mvh]

Smart keyboard pro is my favorite. it has an option to make it look like the HTC keyboard.

 

[Spewy]

SwiftKey keyboard is fantastic, it's word prediction is second to none.
It is a paid app but well worth the money.

 

[lutin]

Swiftkey X is very good and is free if you download getjar (which is also free). I find that the space bar insn't quite big enough though and I accidentally keep hitting the full stop button instead.

My current keyboard is GO Keyboard which I combines the layout of the gingerbread keyboard with the excellent spell correction of swiftkey.

 

[uktivo]

ive just carried out a very un-scientific test and used the following keyboards to write the following

Mary had a little lamb, she tied it to a pylon. A thousand volts went up it's bum and now it's wool is nylon.

I used Swype, gingerbread keyboard and Swiftkey... the results are....

drum roll please....

In third place. Swiftkey. Virtually every word was spelt incorrectly
In second place. Gingerbread keyboard. Was marginally better than 3rd place in terms of spelling. I also found the design of it easier to look at

Leaving Swype keyboard in first place. It was the most accurate in predicting my fat finger typing and it was super quick to type the words..

That's my opinion for what it's worth..

 

[Sydney99]

i really like swype. think it's fab. just my opinion

 

[arrow201]

Look at "GO Keyboard" ...been working great for me

 

[kmorm]

Besides Swype I like to use Smart Keyboard.

I used to use a N97 before Galaxy so with the Smart Keyboard, I find that a problem with it is that the space key should be on the other side of the full stop key and the comma should have a key on its own. Also some of the symbols are too many buttons away so I can't do my preferred emotions

Is there any tutorials on making keyboards? Its basically Java, right? I have some thoughts on a keyboard that would suite my preferences

 

[VulturePenguin]

Give swype a try. All my phones in the past have had a physical keyboard so it took a while getting used to it. At first I didn't like it much but I've had my S2 for about 3 weeks now and absolutely LOVE swype, absolutely superb!

 

[MJC UK]

Another user of the Go keyboard here. Coming from iphone ive found this easiest to use, and it has a comma key on thr front page! Also supports emoji

 

[B00001]

If you install one of these other keyboards, do you lose the speech to text function?

 

[that_maynard]

Haven't tried it yet, but Thumbkeyboard is supposedly great. Another choice is TouchPal it's similar to Swype but is better with longer words. It predicts words that are longer on the fourth letter similar to SwiftKey. I enjoy TouchPal the best so far.

 

[FiveFreshFish]

+1 for Swype. I can easily use it in portrait mode.

 

[Ageless Stranger]

Another vote for swype here, I find I use the delete button on the stock keyboard more than any other key as it wants to choose other keys than the one I press. I tried various other keyboards, but always end up going back to swype. It's amazing, fast and responsive.

 

[Arch Dandy]

I use Better Keyboard, there is a free & paid version.

 

[Riche101]

Forget Swpye and all the others Touchpal https://market.android.com/details?id=com.cootek.smartinputv5&feature=search_result

Leaves them all Lagging behind its smooth fast responsive and word prediction etc is spot on

Its free for the time being

 

[ironass]

Forget Swpye and all the others Touchpal https://market.android.com/details?id=com.cootek.smartinputv5&feature=search_result

Leaves them all Lagging behind its smooth fast responsive and word prediction etc is spot on

Its free for the time being

+1 for TouchPal.

It allows for Swype type entry, traditional input and voice as well as having the facility to adjust the height of the keys.

Only been using it for an hour and it looks like a keeper.

 

[PasiS]

I've been using Thumb Keyboard for awhile now. It is great for thumbing...