The keyboard. I typed on an iphone 4s and even on the tiny screen the keyboard blew away any keyboard i've tried on Android. SwiftKey sucks. Stock sucks. Samsung's sucks. Thumb keyboard sucks. And I prefer typing to swyping any day.
Why don't we have a good keyboard yet?
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Learn to Swype and you'll come to love it. Can never go back to regular typing now that I'm good with it.
I used it for a while on my Evo. Still prefer typing.
I'm gonna have to agree with the op on this when.. My reply was typed with swype.. Lol Stock keyboard sucks.. Swype is bearable but the evo hands down has the best best custom keyboards ever..
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gmap516 said:
The keyboard. I typed on an iphone 4s and even on the tiny screen the keyboard blew away any keyboard i've tried on Android. SwiftKey sucks. Stock sucks. Samsung's sucks. Thumb keyboard sucks. And I prefer typing to swyping any day.
Why don't we have a good keyboard yet?
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Swipe and swift key can suck donkey blongs. Both are very terrible, and i don't get the myriad of groupies who suckle from their tits.
The best keyboard in my opinion is SmartKeyboard Pro. Also very skinnable too.
I have a feeling you might see a huge improvement in ICS. A couple years ago Google bought a company called blindtype, and its technology has yet to show up in android. I'm not saying it will in ICS, but they've been sitting on it for a while and now would be the perfect time.
YouTube blindtype, and you might just be blown away
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Hm. Thats interesting.
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Thumb keyboard doesn't suck, its one of the best if you know how to customize it. I like swiftkey but the keys are too small. I like smartkeyboard pro too. On my phone I keep going back and forth between smartkeyboard and thumb keyboard. I hate swype, and the stock keyboard. The better keyboard is pretty decent too
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Best keyboard is still shapewriter. I was pissed that it was taken from the market, but I was able to get the last update before it was. Swype doesn't even come close to how good shapewriter is.
Can you post that APK?
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Here you go! I've got it on both my phones. International version of the GS2, and my old moto cliq. Never had any problems with it.
I use peferct keyboard and it has a setting for iPhone keyboard and works great
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I prefer Gingerbread Keyboard (known as Keyboard from Android 2.3 on the market)
I use flext9
Thanks for the keyboard dude.. loving it..
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gmap516 said:
The keyboard. I typed on an iphone 4s and even on the tiny screen the keyboard blew away any keyboard i've tried on Android. SwiftKey sucks. Stock sucks. Samsung's sucks. Thumb keyboard sucks. And I prefer typing to swyping any day.
Why don't we have a good keyboard yet?
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Swype is fantastic once you get the hang of it...and swiftkey sucks!??? That thing is fncking super-natural in it's ability to know what I'm going to type next and correct mis-taps. Did you let it read your facebook and emails and txts? I am constantly blown away by how freakin' awesome swiftkey is. I actually bought it, and I don't really buy apps...I have bought like 4 apps ever, and that was a no-brainer.
Has the OP tried Better Keyboard? Its the only thing I love. Even though I play around on swyoe some times which is pretty cool
BetterKeyboard 8 was great, Betterkeyboard Pro 9, is not.
They took away a lot of features, and a lot of options.
I like the Gingerbread keyboard myself
I'm.rocking better key board 8 and I couldn't be happier
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Free until Oct 31st, so you might wanna try it to see if you like it. Found the article about it on Phandroid.com
Market link:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.cootek.smartinputv5
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Avelnan said:
Phones are going to come to life someday. Take note: LG Optimus line. ASUS Transformer. And now the Nexus Prime.
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It helps with the dropped keys, because it has a hardware keys predictive text feature. I love this keyboard, and I've had it less than 10 minutes.
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Phones are going to come to life someday. Take note: LG Optimus line. ASUS Transformer. And now the Nexus Prime.
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First post with TouchPal.
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Key find Zander I'm loving it. Its almost the mtm keyboard+swype which is what I've been looking for. Thanks.
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Wow I'm a hardware key fanatic I deleted all of the software keyboards since the moment and now its like a freakish hybrid of both I love it already
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I really liked this keyboard! I happened to find another keyboard called FlexT9, it has other awesome features too but one downside is it costs $4.99 USD. Plus it looks a lot better too.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nuance.flext9.input&hl=en
During the early TouchPal beta installing this would drop the function and shift key functionality in the hardware keyboard. (makes them not work) Can anyone confirm if this still happens, or has it been patched?
Been patched. Using the hardware keyboard right now, because TouchPal has a prediction for it, so skipped keys matter not anymore.
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Am I the only one that thinks Swype 3.0+ is better? I'm trying really hard to like it but I can't help but feel like I'm typing significantly less efficiently.
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Am I the only one that thinks Swype 3.0+ is better? I'm trying really hard to like it but I can't help but feel like I'm typing significantly less efficiently.
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Idk, I have no problems with either. They only thing I need to get used too, is that TouchPal adds a space when entering a word with the comma key, or period. I barley have to use the space bar, which is good, I'm just not used to it.
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zanderman112 said:
Idk, I have no problems with either. They only thing I need to get used too, is that TouchPal adds a space when entering a word with the comma key, or period. I barley have to use the space bar, which is good, I'm just not used to it.
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I agree there both good and I especially like the auto correct for the keyboard that's great. The only thing I would like is if there were themes for this keyboard cuz I'm not really liking the colours and if the symbols and numbers showed on the regular letters.
Thanks! I'm glad to have navigation and edit keys baked in
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Willickers! If you slide the entire keyboard, it changes the layout!
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Very nice. Like how it also adds features to the physical keyboard as well. Great tip! Thanks!
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huh... am i the only one with my function and shift not working after using it?
This keyboard is awesome as long as you disable the auto spacing it can get very annoying
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Am I the only one that thinks Swype 3.0+ is better? I'm trying really hard to like it but I can't help but feel like I'm typing significantly less efficiently.
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Let's see; All hardwired keyboard functionality appears to work for me
(I also have suggest turned on for the on board keyboard)
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xopher.hunter said:
This keyboard is awesome as long as you disable the auto spacing it can get very annoying
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I've been looking for a keyboard with swype, prediction, context prediction and built-in navigation and editing. Awesom.
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Haha. One of the writers at android police told me Artem (the editor in chief) **** on his write up of this keyboard.
Artem said he tried it and uninstalled it wthin 15 minutes of trying it out.
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xopher.hunter said:
This keyboard is awesome as long as you disable the auto spacing it can get very annoying
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WHERE IS IT???? lmao. I'm gonna break my phones keyboard if I get one more damn autospace while typing
still havent gotten used to the the touch screen.
Woops wrong section
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this belongs in the general section
It's only been a couple of days, you have 14 to figure out if you can go without it.
I too will miss my keyboard. But what choice do we have now? I don't think they will ever make another flagship keyboard phone anywhere
I have been using my Epic on occasion when I have a long message to type
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JohnCorleone said:
I have been using my Epic on occasion when I have a long message to type
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So do you still have the Epic activated w/ a number or are you sending messages via wifi?
JohnCorleone said:
I have been using my Epic on occasion when I have a long message to type
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Im liking the keyboard on this and now i fly with it and no key skips lol... Im not really missing the epic keyboard especially for the keyskips and i really never used it... Loving how thin this is without it..
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deano0714 said:
Im liking the keyboard on this and now i fly with it and no key skips lol... Im not really missing the epic keyboard especially for the keyskips and i really never used it... Loving how thin this is without it..
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Same here, I have gotten much better and faster on the touchscreen keyboard.
deano0714 said:
Im liking the keyboard on this and now i fly with it and no key skips lol... Im not really missing the epic keyboard especially for the keyskips and i really never used it... Loving how thin this is without it..
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Yup, no key skips. At first I thought I'd miss it, but I actually don't. The large screen is perfect for my 8 sausages, and 2 pork loins.
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In a few weeks you won't even remember that keyboard, in a few months the thought of one will disgust you.
Spoken from experience.
daneurysm said:
In a few weeks you won't even remember that keyboard, in a few months the thought of one will disgust you.
Spoken from experience.
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I hope this is true, going to keep my epic for games. My keyboard was used a great deal on emulators.
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Is it out yet for the nexus? Cause I need it badly, I keep thinking I have it lol
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It took me a few days to stop trying to swype. I tried SlideIT, ended up liking the stock keyboard more.
To actually answer the question, apparently they have not updated it yet for GNex screen resolution.
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Lol thanks. Yeah I keep catching myself "swyping" oh well I'll type like the common folk for a while haha jk
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I used to be a swype fanatic... nothing seemed as fun or efficient. i installed and uninstalled SwiftKey about 3 times before just settling on it due to really appreciating its predictive text capabilities and accuracy. also the fact that it learns your style so well. so ya, try it out
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The thread title is misleading as others including myself may think it's actually out when it's not.
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It took me a few days to stop trying to swype. I tried SlideIT, ended up liking the stock keyboard more.
To actually answer the question, apparently they have not updated it yet for GNex screen resolution.
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screen resolution shouldn't be a problem, I'm using swype on my rezound. Maybe an ICS incompatibility???
Has anyone tried these:
http://jbthemes.com/djdarkknight/darkswype-morph/
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screen resolution shouldn't be a problem, I'm using swype on my rezound. Maybe an ICS incompatibility???
Has anyone tried these:
http://jbthemes.com/djdarkknight/darkswype-morph/
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I agree.
Vote for OP to change thread-title.
nrfitchett4 said:
screen resolution shouldn't be a problem, I'm using swype on my rezound. Maybe an ICS incompatibility???
Has anyone tried these:
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It's incompatible because swype doesnt see the resolution because of the Softkeys on the bottom (Screen res. is reported a little less then 720p).
As to getting an update on it...Doubtful there will be any before early 2012.
As I understand it Swype got aquired by a different company (Nuance), so they are in the "thinking box" trying to decide which software should be implemented where...
Herman76 said:
It's incompatible because swype doesnt see the resolution because of the Softkeys on the bottom (Screen res. is reported a little less then 720p).
As to getting an update on it...Doubtful there will be any before early 2012.
As I understand it Swype got aquired by a different company (Nuance), so they are in the "thinking box" trying to decide which software should be implemented where...
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good to know. Sometimes being on the cutting edge is a pain. Lots of games I have don't work on the Rezound or are sized wrong.
OMGi need swype. I'm using slide it and it is horrible compared to swype LOL
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I have Swype working on my Galaxy Nexus but it has an annoying bug that causes the suggestion bar to occasionally appear and disappear which shifts the entire page up and down. Doesn't affect functionality but it's annoying as hell.
You've all got mail
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jetrii said:
I have Swype working on my Galaxy Nexus but it has an annoying bug that causes the suggestion bar to occasionally appear and disappear which shifts the entire page up and down. Doesn't affect functionality but it's annoying as hell.
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How did you get it to work.. did you just install the beta or did you have to tweak it somehow?
gabster21 said:
How did you get it to work.. did you just install the beta or did you have to tweak it somehow?
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APK was tweaked using some configuration settings posted by an XDA member.
Just got it and i am so happy lol. Even with the suggestions making the screen go crazy
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Missing Swype too. But that's the price for beeing an early adopter
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vaffanculo403 said:
You've all got mail
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I would very much so appreciate some mail
I need it too, please.
Swype please
I've been in the swype beta program for Android for about 2 years and still waiting for a bill to buy the product. Maybe through the acquisition by Nuance there could be an investment to make it a product (OEM licence or end-user) and then engage the developers to finish the excellent work started by the first team.
Start with ICS and pick up some of the tablet market too.
YGM!
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i just broke my screen again and im eligible for a fulkl upgrade but im debating whether to pay the 100 and keep the epic or come here. its the hard keyboard that keeps me there. is this phone amazing? does anyone regret not having the hard keyboard. any opinions would be greatly appreciated thanks
I had the Epic 4G, epic 4G touch, and now the S3.
I dd miss the keyboard on my Epic 4g Touch, but I think I got used to it. Now I'm on the S3 with SwiftKey and I'm typing a lot faster than I did with my Epic 4G.
There are a LOT more new features if you are going from the Epic to the S3 as well.. .
I don't miss my keyboard one bit from the epic. I'm using Swype beta.
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gorelow said:
i just broke my screen again and im eligible for a fulkl upgrade but im debating whether to pay the 100 and keep the epic or come here. its the hard keyboard that keeps me there. is this phone amazing? does anyone regret not having the hard keyboard. any opinions would be greatly appreciated thanks
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I don't miss the hard keyboard, phone is amazing, minus the bloatware, superfast phone. Sprint's network ain't the best right now either. I use swype keyboard, love it.
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Try SwiftKey and also Freegs3 for a rom... It's got aroma!
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Naddict said:
Try SwiftKey and also Freegs3 for a rom... It's got aroma!
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I approve this message. Same setup here with FreeGS3 and SwiftKey. I bought the Epic originally b/c of the keyboard, and really never used it. I didn't like how the keys were in a straight line, and not offset like any other keyboard. I could never really get used to it.
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I approve this message. Same setup here with FreeGS3 and SwiftKey. I bought the Epic originally b/c of the keyboard, and really never used it. I didn't like how the keys were in a straight line, and not offset like any other keyboard. I could never really get used to it.
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Aawww Hayzooos.... You are too good to me...
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Or you could do what I did..used my total equipment protection on my epic 4g and right after ordering a new one I used my upgrade and got a new gs3 and a newly refurbished epic 4g two days later.....I was skeptic I'd miss the hardware keyboard but the phone more than makes up for it with the bigger screen.
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I also had the Epic 4G and 4G Touch. I got the Epic 4G because I had never used a smart phone that didn't have a keyboard. But I never used the keyboard on the Epic 4G because I fell in love with Swype. So the upgrade path for me was an easy decision. But to put it into perspective my wife would not own a phone without a keyboard. After she used my phone for a while she is begging me to get her an S3.
Come to the S3,
the hardware keyboard is amazing i do agree as i had one and it's the only phone that i've completed a full year with!
but you get used to having a virtual keyboard,
the one of the Gnex was amazing, this one has it's quirks but oh well.
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I also had the Epic 4G and 4G Touch. I got the Epic 4G because I had never used a smart phone that didn't have a keyboard. But I never used the keyboard on the Epic 4G because I fell in love with Swype. So the upgrade path for me was an easy decision. But to put it into perspective my wife would not own a phone without a keyboard. After she used my phone for a while she is begging me to get her an S3.
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I second this I had the Epic 4G and the 4G Touch also. I got the Epic 4G because I thought it would be convenient, but I fell in love with Swype so the keyboard became extra weight to the phone. I really loved my Epic Touch and I would still have it if it didn't go out on me last week, and it was cheaper in my case to get the S3 (full upgrade, and Sprint Buyback on 2 phones I paid $93). My girlfriend on the other took over my Epic 4G when I got the Epic Touch, she eventually moved to the Evo Shift, but due to playing with my Epic Touch and S3, she's moving to the Evo LTE next week, so the keyboard thing is beginning to play out, go grab a S3, I prefer white
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As I was using my phone, I had a flashback to my Palm Pre. I still love WebOS and I cant shake this longing feeling to have it back. And please dont go suggesting that I should just use that then, I just bought the SIII and love it to death I just would love to see a WebOS port on here, what are your guys opinions? And is it plausible? Considering it is another Linux variant.
You so crazy!
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lanhikari3113 said:
As I was using my phone, I had a flashback to my Palm Pre. I still love WebOS and I cant shake this longing feeling to have it back. And please dont go suggesting that I should just use that then, I just bought the SIII and love it to death I just would love to see a WebOS port on here, what are your guys opinions? And is it plausible? Considering it is another Linux variant.
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Sure let's port a dead o.s. with no app support.... I loved webos it was just way to late to the game ... too much work. Have to write drivers from scratch for all hardware, and you get what benefit basically a launcher...
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lanhikari3113 said:
As I was using my phone, I had a flashback to my Palm Pre. I still love WebOS and I cant shake this longing feeling to have it back. And please dont go suggesting that I should just use that then, I just bought the SIII and love it to death I just would love to see a WebOS port on here, what are your guys opinions? And is it plausible? Considering it is another Linux variant.
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Buy a palm pre if you want web os so bad.
Apple just give up the IPHONE sucks deal with it.
webOS? lmao. I had a Palm Pre for over a year and that OS is POS. May it rest in peace.
Can someone help me get ios6 on my phone? :thumbup: :sarcarsm:
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I loved web os. The only thing I'm missing is the multitasking, wave launcher, and gesture bar. Those would be sick on android.
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tkbredx said:
I loved web os. The only thing I'm missing is the multitasking, wave launcher, and gesture bar. Those would be sick on android.
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There is an app called wave launcher that gives you the web os wave bar.
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