who designs these things?

Just wait for the Nexus One. You don't need a keyboard with such amazing speech to text.

 

amen brotha

 

I understand your complaints, but to say that the keyboard on the Droid is "worthless" is personal opinion. Within a few weeks of use I was able to type on it just as quickly as I could on my Blackberry.

 

The speech recognition technology isn't just for speech to text. It's for navigating and can be used with any app.

 

The one gripe I had with the keyboard was the fact that they made the space bar so small, yet left two blank keys on the corners. That space key could have been nearly twice as large. That was the biggest obstacle to quick typing for me. The spacing and D-Pad positioning (surprisingly) didn't hamper my typing too much. The space bar was the biggest issue, and even though I like the physical keyboard, I still just cannot comprehend why that particular design choice was made.

 

Are you seriously comparing blackberry keyboards to android/phone keyboards? Seriously? BB keyboards are so SMALL. The moment Keyboard works just fine. Some people.....

 

yeah...voice recognition
"Please let me know if you've heard this missus. Thank you. Bye."

 

The keyboard did take some getting used to.... It was annoying at first. But a week later and I'm starting to get used to it.

 

Purely opinion. Honestly, you can't judge the Droid's keyboard from 10 minutes of use in a VZN store. It takes a while to get used to, but once you do it's really not to bad. Almost everyone who has purchased one will tell you the same thing, that it just took a while to get used to. IMO BB keyboards are terrible...

I couldn't agree more. That phone would be amazing... I should mention though, that the 528MHz processor that HTC loves oh so much really isn't that bad, and that a lot of the problems involving it stemmed from bad drivers. (Compare the TP to the TP2).

 

I can honestly say the keyboard and me are not on speaking or typing terms. When i got my Droid i used it a bit, and hit many wrong keys. But once i started useing the touch keyboard I'm not going to miss the physical one. the touch one works well IMHO. As for the physical keyboard. better to have a bad one then not to have one at all. I'm sure many (as stated above) get used to it and some will even like it. I guess I figure its better to have one (even if i dont like it) then not to. Unfortnatly the Dpad even if removbed would just make wider keys, they would still be very short. When I look at all the keypads i ahve used on other phones its really not that bad, i just prefer the touch one.

 

imho the Samsung Moment keyboard is almost perfect. It's far superior to the Droid keyboard and many others. I love it.

 

Ogre? Right. Way to flame buddy. Cant beat someone in a debate, flame them! Right. Anyway, concerning xbox controllers, I cant stand the batwing(old xbox controller). In fact, thats a reason i never bought the original xbox and went PS2 instead. (btw the best controller IMO was for n64) Some of the blackberry keyboards ive seen have to share letters on one key? no thanks! The samsung moment keyboard is awesome. And the TP2 keyboard is great. HTC has always been great with slide out qwerty. Also a i love the slide out feature. I dont have to worry about hitting keys in my pocket. And before you try to show your age and flame again, act like a big boy would ya? Thanks.