The8Pen keyboard?

johnofcross · Nov 3, 2010

MatterOfFact said:
My thoughts on the subject:

Having said that, 8pen has left a lot of room for improving this experience. Some suggestions I would make are:
1. create option to disable auto space when lifting your finger
2. keep spelling correcitons on screen after lifting your finger
3. Suggest words way more often. (i find myself pausing in the middle of a word to find the next letter and it brings up the special characters. If I could finishe the word wrong and have it suggest a word that is close and in the dictionary, it would save a lot of backspacing)
4. show the letter currently selected in the text box you are typing into instead of bolding it under your finger... what good does it do if you can't see the letter they say you are entering.
5. I thought this as voice input? where did that go?

I could go on. I think this thing has potential and I will stick with it for a while because im a glutton for punishment, but they have left a lot of room for improvement.

I'd like to add that during mid type, they should prevent auto landscape so you don't lose what you typed.

cartisdm · Nov 3, 2010

Sevreth said:
...I personally have huge issues with people texting and driving. They are a menace to all of us just trying to get home to our families....

Cheers,

-Sev

Yeah, I used to be bad about texting and driving but once I upgraded to a touchscreen (BlackBerry Storm over 2 years ago), I wouldn't allow myself to play with my phone while behind the wheel. It's just not worth it - way too hard to play with these devices and drive

Deleted User · Nov 3, 2010

Sevreth said:
Don't take this too personally 2010ZR1, but I need to get this out.

I personally have huge issues with people texting and driving. They are a menace to all of us just trying to get home to our families. I have had 3 near misses as a driver in the past 2 months and 1 as a pedestrian so close that they ran over my foot (but I was wearing my steel toe shoes). She looked up at me like I was the problem......and then realized that she ran over my foot.

Sorry to get off topic, but to all the 8pen users, thanks for your feed back on this forum. I was really on the fence about this, despite my grievences with the stock keyboard. I think I will wait for this to be refined and hopefully a free trial be offered.

Cheers,

-Sev

I understand, ever since I made the switch to touch screen, I have stopped texting in the car. I guess it was about the fact that I don't need to look at the screen to use this keyboard.

Sevreth · Nov 3, 2010

cartisdm said:
Yeah, I used to be bad about texting and driving but once I upgraded to a touchscreen (BlackBerry Storm over 2 years ago), I wouldn't allow myself to play with my phone while behind the wheel. It's just not worth it - way too hard to play with these devices and drive

I also read an article (can't find it this second) about how texting (in any form) and driving makes you 23 times more likely to have an accident.

here is the Wikipedia comparison....which is unreal....
Texting while driving - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Unimpaired: .54 seconds to brake
Legally drunk: add 4 feet
Reading e-mail: add 36 feet.
Sending a text: add 70 feet[12]

I personally love driving. I drive a manual as well and get pure joy of operating my motor vehicle. I even raced in an amateur event when I was younger (was a blast). I can't ever imagine allowing myself to be that distracted with all the physics that are involved with a moving car.

I am glad you guys have stopped texting. Just need to spread the word. We have enough bad drivers already.

Cheers,

-Sev

P.S. Sorry that this is off topic again....i wont say anything more about it in this thread.

chrisjz · Nov 4, 2010

Ok, so i have been using this for the day, and cannot figure out how to get some predictions to pop up. I have to type out the whole word, nothing comes up, i checked the settings, everything is set right. Anyone else having this problem?

Deleted User · Nov 4, 2010

Yea I have had no luck with the prediction either

poland626 · Nov 4, 2010

wow, after like, 3 days or so , I've gotten very good at this keyboard. Very fast too

cartisdm · Nov 4, 2010

poland626 said:
wow, after like, 3 days or so , I've gotten very good at this keyboard. Very fast too

I can't tell if I sense sarcasm or not...do you like it better than swype? (or at least think you could with some more practice)

Mostly Harmless · Nov 4, 2010

Been using this for about two days instead of Swiftkey and I am really starting to like it. It definitely has a steep learning curve but I feel that it has a lot of potential. It's really all about learning where the keys are, I compare this back to my days in high school computer class where they took the keys off the keyboard so you couldn't look down. Right now I save this keyboard to smaller task so as texting, searching for stuff, etc... and if I have to do something heavy I switch over to Swiftkey. Android makes it pretty easy to switch keyboards so I don't mind. I am very curious to see how I like it after a weeks worth of use. It will take more then a day to start getting use to it, so if you are opened mind give it a shot and except the frustration as experience.

poland626 · Nov 4, 2010

cartisdm said:
I can't tell if I sense sarcasm or not...do you like it better than swype? (or at least think you could with some more practice)

I don't have swype, heck, I don't even know where to find swype. So I'm telling the truth in how i say how much i like this keyboard

WormDoes · Nov 4, 2010

I'm sorry if this offends anyone, but, do people really have that hard of a time typing on a QWERTY? I'm all for innovation but I don't see this catching on at all. Swype is the wave of the future as far as typing is concerned. I wish they stopped being so fickle and uptight about releasing it and apk's so everyone could experience it's greatness

Deleted User · Nov 4, 2010

WormDoes said:
I'm sorry if this offends anyone, but, do people really have that hard of a time typing on a QWERTY? I'm all for innovation but I don't see this catching on at all. Swype is the wave of the future as far as typing is concerned. I wish they stopped being so fickle and uptight about releasing it and apk's so everyone could experience it's greatness

People aren't switching because the QWERTY is bad, they switch for the same reason you switch to swype. I like this because I believe it is easier to use without looking than a qwerty would be. The letters are so close on a qwerty that it requires more attention than this does. I am also waiting on the blindtype keyboard, which is qwerty, but allows for gross errors and still can figure out what you are trying to say.

cartisdm · Nov 5, 2010

poland626 said:
I don't have swype, heck, I don't even know where to find swype. So I'm telling the truth in how i say how much i like this keyboard

That's good to hear. I've had it installed (8pen) for a few days now, I just don't have time to practice while at work and when I get home in the evenings the fiancee doesn't let me play with my phone too much

Sevreth · Nov 5, 2010

I am interested in this keyboard, but from what I saw of blind type, I will probably wait for that. Swype was good while it lasted, but after the 2.2 update my .apk didnt work anymore and now the beta is closed.

If swype gets released anytime soon, I will get that. I am just tired of the errors of the stock keyboard. Ultra Keyboard, Slideit and swiftkey just dont do it for me. I get similar issues with them as the stock QWERTY. I give 8pen credit for coming up with something new and potentially faster than standard qwerty keyboards.

Has anyone noticed a stock keyboard lag with the incredible since the 2.2 update? It drives me nuts that I can type faster than the phone can understand, which leads to more errors.

-Sev

gruss · Nov 5, 2010

I wanted to try it but I am not buying it just to say I did.

cartisdm · Nov 10, 2010

gruss said:
I wanted to try it but I am not buying it just to say I did.

Apparently it's free now in the Market. I'm kinda disappointed they charged for the first few days then dropped it to free. I not complaining about my ~$1.50 spent, just their approach to marketing...

EgoDogg · Nov 11, 2010

cartisdm said:
Apparently it's free now in the Market. I'm kinda disappointed they charged for the first few days then dropped it to free. I not complaining about my ~$1.50 spent, just their approach to marketing...

Agreed. I forgot to uninstall after 24 hours, so I didn't get my moolah back. Haha

Soccerdude588 · Nov 11, 2010

I just got it now that it's free.

I can say now, after 5 minutes of just messing with it. There's less hassle with trying to hit those tiny keys. But it's certainly a lot of memorization.

I would think it's comparable to how a lot of people on older phones could text in with the number keys, either just mashing numbers till you got the right letter or using T-9.
It takes time, and of course it's new. I've known 2 (abc), 3 (def), 4 (ghi), 5 (jkl), 6 (mno), 7 (pqrs), 8 (tuv), 9 (yxz) Since I was a little kid, wondering how you dialed stuff like, 1-800-CALL-ATT, or collect.

I'm gonna give it my best effort. Though I doubt I'll sit there doing heavy typing until I'm good at it.

jayDInc · Nov 11, 2010

I just got it this morning also. I think it works well, especially for those of us with larger fingers. Easy enough to switch back and forth if needed. They added many of the features people were complaining about last week (you can disable auto-space and it shows a pop-up pad so your finger doesn't block everything as you write, etc.)

Worth at least twice what I paid!

fortesquieu · Nov 11, 2010

It's free now!

Old Member · Nov 11, 2010

I downloaded it, installed it, and 10 minutes later uninstalled it. I couldn't even get through the tutorial on how to use it. I stand by my earlier comment in this thread. Dumbest keyboard I've ever seen. Now confirmed.

Blessing · Nov 11, 2010

Anything new or a change requires a certain level of open-mindedness. I downloaded this yesterday and see the potential, but it requires the time and patience to learn a new system - some people, it appears, have neither.

Will stick with it for a week and see how it goes. Otherwise it's back to Ultra Keyboard for me

Bigjew92 · Nov 11, 2010

its free now btw. just picked it up. we'll see. lot's of settings. gestures are badass!

Colchicine · Nov 12, 2010

I can't figure out how to get my 8pen off of ALL CAPS.

I can press the up arrow in the bottom left corner and get it to show lowercase, but as soon as I start (typing) it goes to all caps. This is the new free version. The day it came out I tried it out and didn't have this problem.

I'm sure this is a face palm deal, but I sure can't figure it out.

AHanks12 · Nov 12, 2010

Colchicine said:
I can't figure out how to get my 8pen off of ALL CAPS.

I can press the up arrow in the bottom left corner and get it to show lowercase, but as soon as I start (typing) it goes to all caps. This is the new free version. The day it came out I tried it out and didn't have this problem.

I'm sure this is a face palm deal, but I sure can't figure it out.

Tap up arrow once to capitalize only the first letter, tap it again to keep Caps lock turned on, tap it again to turn it off

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