I am amazed by the physical keyboard

[fludkilla]

I don't know how long it takes for the keyboard to completely form, but mine is pretty shaped. All the buttons can be felt by my finger tips and to think I was worried about this keyboard being to flat -_-

 

[TGuy]

I noticed that a few days ago.....only after I trained myself to use the htc soft kb i downloaded.

 

[Bryant.Villada]

yes, the moto droid keyboard starts flat and form into a bubble shape key after some use... pretty wild.

 

[zakth]

I'm not too crazy about the keyboard being flat. I hope the keys do bubble a bit. The way it is now I tend to hit buttons by mistake.

 

[wricks]

Mine seems to have gotten more finger friendly the more I use it.

 

[seanubis]

I'll never understand this. My keys were bubble-shaped from day one, but I've seen Droids with flat keys. Are you saying the flat keys will actually bubble out over time?

 

[watersrules]

Same with mine, literally day 1 it formed.. its crazy how many threads I've read of people griping about it!

 

[thebizz]

After months of use I've grown to hate it. Ranks up their with the camera as the worse features on this phone I can bankg out message like nothing on the software keyboard but not on the hardware one. I choose not to use it

 

[paul_aka_paul]

I came to the Droid from the LG Dare, which is all touchscreen. I had zero interest in the physical keyboard, but I've heard so many people talk it up that I tried to start using it. I think I figured out what is throwing me off in my attempts to find out what I am missing.

Where the on screen keyboard is slightly off center due to the lower lip on the keyboard part of the body, the physical keyboard is way to the left. Since I'm so used to holding it by the sides while I type, my left thumb was having to stretch to reach. I thought it was the keys themselves that made me mistype so much but it is that awkward stretch.

I'm going to try again to see if I can get used to it. Maybe try to relearn by holding it from the bottom rather than the sides. If that doesn't work I'll just stick with the on screen which I can fly thru, but annoyingly covers the whole screen in landscape.

 

[fludkilla]

Yes this keyboard is a hit or a miss for some people, but the only reason its doing so well is because it has a physical keyboard.

 

[BoNg420]

I hated the keyboard, thats why I am moving to the incredible, I never used the keyboard. Can't wait to get home another 50 minutes and I will be playing with my new phone!

I thought the droid had the worse keyboard ever. I like the devour keyboard because there is actually space in between the keys, but whoever made the droid keyboard was smoking that crack.

 

[johnny99]

The Droid keyboard isn't the best in the world, but I can still type twice as fast and twice as accurately on the hard keyboard vs the touch screen.

 

[thebizz]

True it gives you the option

 

[Genetic_Bloom]

I don't quite understand why you would switch to the Incredible just because it has no keyboard...the Droid has an on-screen keyboard too, no one is forcing you to use the slide-out one.

 

[paul_aka_paul]

I don't quite understand why you would switch to the Incredible just because it has no keyboard...the Droid has an on-screen keyboard too, no one is forcing you to use the slide-out one.

I considered the Eris when I bought the Droid because of the added bulk the physical keyboard, which I saw as unnecessary. I am more than happy that I went with performance over form. But I totally get why someone would think switching over.

 

[fludkilla]

I hated the keyboard, thats why I am moving to the incredible, I never used the keyboard. Can't wait to get home another 50 minutes and I will be playing with my new phone!

I thought the droid had the worse keyboard ever. I like the devour keyboard because there is actually space in between the keys, but whoever made the droid keyboard was smoking that crack.

Lol this guy is bugged out. looks like you didnt even give it a chance.

 

[MBSMD]

I usually don't use the slide out keyboard, but it does come in handy sometimes, especially when filling out multi-part web forms since the keyboard + text box don't occupy the whole screen like it does with the soft keyboard.

I spent about 20-30 minutes playing with the Incredible at the Verizon store a couple days ago. I run my Droid at 900MHz and at that speed I could detect no difference in web page render speed, home screen swap speed, app launch speed or anything else. And even at 900MHz, I still have 60% on the battery after a full day of work.

The Incredible is nice, for sure, but there's absolutely nothing about it that would make me pay $500 to swap out my Droid.

 

[junpar]

The keyboard is definitely a hit and miss for people. For me, I have small hands and small fingers, I absolutely adore the keyboard, it's very useful for web browsing and for emailing long messages. After getting used to it and using it a lot the keys are more bubbly and the more I use it the better it becomes!