Thoughts on soft keyboards

I cant do it. Like literally cant. I think I have a handicap or some type of mental ******ation..

Ive tried so many times to switch to software keyboard, but everytime I do, I always come back to hardware. Works out since I really dont mind "thicker" devices. Still though, it just sucks that it seems no good qwerty androids come out..I dont like having to have a shitty selection just because I prefer a hardware keyboard.

No disrespect to the droid! Wonderful device, sure, just not for me. The keyboard was so un-useable that it was pointless and the device was much too masculine for me! Im a small female!! So ugly with the boxy rectangle look (imo); I felt like Motorola borrowed the design from a toaster. Reminds me of those ugly square cars!

But anywho, I digress. Long story short, I prefer hardware keyboard over software but I wish I didnt.

 

Swype is better than any hard keyboard and almost as good as an alphanumeric pad (nothing is as good as an alphanumeric pad in terms of texting imo)



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Way to pass off opinion as fact

 

Imo= in my opinion. Pretty sure I said that



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the HTC_IME keyboard imo is much better than swype.

 

Yeah it is very good. I have both but find myself using swype. Super fast and easy to type with one finger



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Back to the purpose of this thread. Sorry for the hijack. Dell is making a phone with similar form factor to the Treo/Blackberry but it isn't expected to release til Q4 of this year, it is called the Flash. Also Motorola is making this phone which is a perfect square that had a keyboard which flips out (very different style but has a portrait hard keyboard), it will be called the flipout. You should look those up. Can't think of any others which fit your bill but I am sure other OEMs will release phones of that style as there are many others put there like you.



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You said that in regards to alphanumeric. Not regarding your swype comment.

 

Okay sorry if I came out as trying to pass opinion as fact, I apologize. That was not my intent. I should have written "imo" twice but figured saying one thing being better than another would be assumed as opinion. Hell, this thread is based on opinion.

Just saying that swype is very fast and easy to use (imo) to the point where I could never go back to a hard mobile keyboard. You don't even have to lift your finger off the keyboard when typing a word (fact) and this makes a soft keyboard more advantageous than a hard keyboard (imo). It is the easy touchscreen keyboards should be (imo).



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My bad. Not the Flash, the DELL SMOKE. Sorry-

Dell Smoke - Full phone specifications

 

Yeah it is not very good screen. Especially if it will be a touchscreen.


Dell is making a reallly nice phone with a keyboard also releasing in Q4 but it will be Windows Phone 7- Dell Lightning - Full phone specifications . If this were Android....

But yeah, I think at this point there is no perfect phone for you. Maybe in one year...

 

Interesting. HTC is also reportedly making the new Sidekick (don't worry, it is NOTHING like previous Sidekicks).

T-Mobile and HTC team up for Sidekick Twist – Android and Me

 

honestly dude i used to be used to a landscape keyboard and couldnt type on a virtual keyboard for shit. after using multiple touch screen only phones i became very used to a virtual keyboard. i can now type faster on a virtual keyboard than a physical because all you have to do is tap the screen. the htc phones are really pushing accuracy like the iphone, and with bigger screens like the evo typing is getting even easier.

i admit you might make a couple more mistakes with a virtual keyboard but you can still type faster so it doesnt have much of an affect. on me anyway. personally i find physical keyboards being a waste of space on the newer touch screens. my friend has the droid and both him and i seem to only use the touch screen.

 

I use the HTC_IME, Its so far the best I've used. Although after using an iPhone for two years you get some muscle memory for it and I've been having some issues with every keyboard since.

 

the physical keyboard lets you use the whole screen. Not much of a factor for one line sentences but it does matter if you type several paragraphs. Also, I like games that use the keyboard.

 

That is an upside to the keyboard, games. The GBA emulator on my X10 is hell, but I moved it to my Galaxy and it was beauty! (Just because of the face buttons)

 

I went from a RAZR straight to the Eris, and have had absolutely no problems adjusting. I can type just as fast if not faster with the Eris, in fact, I'm probably as good with the Eris as with a computer keyboard honestly.

 

you must not be such a good typer on a computer keyboard then, because anyone knows you can type a good amount faster on a computer keyboard.

 

Another thing that can't be done very well virtually is a trackball for 360 control and hovering. Almost like using a mouse. I like how the G1 combined the keyboard and the trackball and I wish there was a more modern version.

 

I went from a Blackberry 8310 to the Droid and Swype really helped. That said, Swype isn't for everyone.

I only use the Droid's physical keyboard for games these days.