Love the Note 5..HATE the keyboard (stock Samsung) !!!

[alejovh1]

SwiftKey too

 

[Jamez Avila]

Swiftkey is the best keyboard with its numerous themes and layouts.

 

[BergerKing]

Longtime SwiftKey user. Love having Cloud backup on it, and using it on multiple devices with everything synching up. Tablet and phone. I use a black keyboard with neon green outlines, suits me just fine.

 

[zmann]

SwiftKey is the best in my opinion

Note 5 is DOPE

 

[Almeuit]

I hate stock keyboard on every single phone... I always instantly switch to SwiftKey.

 

[laestrella]

I'm throwing in my vote for swiftkey. However, I love using my pen and the fact that I can make the stock keyboard change to the writing pad when I remove the pen is making me consider using the Samsung keyboard.

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[ctk4949]

Isnt the Samsung KB based on Swiftkey??

 

[ccpopham]

Any keyboard you download with predictive text is going to give you that warning. Google collects loads of your info already.

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[laestrella]

Isnt the Samsung KB based on Swiftkey??

Well that would make sense as to why I don't hate it.

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[billykac]

Well that would make sense as to why I don't hate it.

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Well, that would actually make sense as to why I DO hate it!

I've been living with the Samsung keyboard (even though Google Keyboard is my favorite) for the past few days just to see if there are attributes to the Samsung keyboard that make it a great choice to use. I wondered if there were features that closely tie the keyboard into other Samsung apps. So far, I am not seeing that, but I did just discover a huge flaw.

I was an early adopter of Swiftkey, years ago, and really enjoyed the awesome prediction capabilities of that app. But, a couple of years back I noticed that while Swiftkey works great for texts and emails, if you ever try to do work in a document longer than a couples of pages, it grinds to a halt. This is an issue for me across Android phones, versions of Android OS, different word processing apps and is a well-documented bug for Swiftkey - it just doesn't work.

Along with many other hopeful Swiftkey users, we have brought this issue to their attention, and they just don't address it. To make a guess as to the problem, I'd say that their app architecture loads the entire file when it is opened, into the same cache space that the app needs to operate, making the app slower and slower - again, just a guess, but it certainly behaves this way.

So, as of tonight I am back to Google keyboard and Google Handwriting Input. I can say now that I am not missing out on anything by moving back to the Google apps, but I am gaining the ability to work in longer docs. Plus, both Google apps are faster, more accurate and easier to use than the Samsung apps.

 

[Jay G63]

I'm throwing in my vote for swiftkey. However, I love using my pen and the fact that I can make the stock keyboard change to the writing pad when I remove the pen is making me consider using the Samsung keyboard.

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Strange, I can still hover and get symbol to use writing pad.

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[laestrella]

Strange, I can still hover and get symbol to use writing pad.
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Right..but I was referring to this. ..



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[Jay G63]

Can't you just use this.?

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[maj71303]

Here is my keyboard on my note 5 but it is an international version.

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[anon(9228075)]

I also have dedicated number row. I have always used swiftkey but this samsung keyboard isnt bad.

Does it learn from your typing and from other apps?

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[kingkonggames2013]

Samsung really love a square. even their name means 3-point stars in Korean..

 

[AllPhones]

My international Note 5 default keyboard comes with a dedicated number row.

.....and without the symbols showing in the top right corner. You have to hit the "Sym" button.

 

[AllPhones]

Here is my keyboard on my note 5 but it is an international version.

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Interesting my international version does not show the symbols in the top right corner or those shortcuts above the numbers.

 

[mayconvert]

Just the opposite for me. LOVE the Samsung stock keyboard. I didn't even bother downloading other keyboards after using it for the first day.
Best android keyboard ever to me.

 

[ShaggyKids]

I use SwiftKey.

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