I initially started out with an iphone and that convinced me the I my next smart device would *have* to have a physical keyboard. I spent the last few months demo'ing every slider/physical keyboard phone I could get my hands on in search of that elusive "perfect" feeling physical keyboard. A few came close but most of them were just "off" in one way or another.
Then, along comes the Evo with its gigantic slab of a display that surely it would be worth a try and re-visiting my initial iphone-induced wariness of soft keyboards.
I couldnt have found a more perfect typing surface. One of the perfect things about Android soft keyboards is the availability of choices and ability to swap out different keyboards - something that is (obviously) completely absent with a physical keyboard or iphone and the thing that truly seals the deal, so to speak.
After using Swype and SwiftKey on the Evo, I have abosolutely been converted to soft keyboards - provided it's on an Android, or other system that allows the flexibility to change out things like the keyboard.
I prefer Swype in portrait mode and SwiftKey in landscape. I find that portrait mode works better for me typing one handed and is amazingly fast, fluid and accurate with Swype. Just zing my thumb around a little on the Swype keyboard area and somehow, amazingly, intelligible text emerges. In landscape, I find the physical size of th Evo is a detriment to Swype use however. Landscape on the Evo offers the roominess that just makes two-handed typing a dream and - since you have to cover so much real estate just makes Swype tedious and is where SwiftKey shines. Its auto correct and prediction scare me they are so good. I can, essentially, just mash my two thumbs in the general area of the keyboard and somehow it just seems to know what I intended to type. I really am kind of freaked out by it sometimes.
Its gotten to the point that I find myself almost beginning to use the habits I've developed on the Evo when I'm typing at my computer's keyboard and starting to feel frustrated with the "dubmness" of my main computer's full size physical keyboard. I'll be typing along and realize I've made some sort of typo and wonder how/why my computer let that slip and didn't go back and auto correct what I meant to type, insert grammatically correct punctuation and just "know" what I was trying to type in the first place like my Evo seems to. Funny as it is, I think I can churn out *accurate* text faster on my Evo than on a full size physical keyboard on a regular computer.
Smart phone sized flip/slide outs aren't even a consideration anymore and I find myself thinking of them more as a quaint throwback to outdated technology than something useful - kind of like a rotary dial telephone or something.
Then, along comes the Evo with its gigantic slab of a display that surely it would be worth a try and re-visiting my initial iphone-induced wariness of soft keyboards.
I couldnt have found a more perfect typing surface. One of the perfect things about Android soft keyboards is the availability of choices and ability to swap out different keyboards - something that is (obviously) completely absent with a physical keyboard or iphone and the thing that truly seals the deal, so to speak.
After using Swype and SwiftKey on the Evo, I have abosolutely been converted to soft keyboards - provided it's on an Android, or other system that allows the flexibility to change out things like the keyboard.
I prefer Swype in portrait mode and SwiftKey in landscape. I find that portrait mode works better for me typing one handed and is amazingly fast, fluid and accurate with Swype. Just zing my thumb around a little on the Swype keyboard area and somehow, amazingly, intelligible text emerges. In landscape, I find the physical size of th Evo is a detriment to Swype use however. Landscape on the Evo offers the roominess that just makes two-handed typing a dream and - since you have to cover so much real estate just makes Swype tedious and is where SwiftKey shines. Its auto correct and prediction scare me they are so good. I can, essentially, just mash my two thumbs in the general area of the keyboard and somehow it just seems to know what I intended to type. I really am kind of freaked out by it sometimes.
Its gotten to the point that I find myself almost beginning to use the habits I've developed on the Evo when I'm typing at my computer's keyboard and starting to feel frustrated with the "dubmness" of my main computer's full size physical keyboard. I'll be typing along and realize I've made some sort of typo and wonder how/why my computer let that slip and didn't go back and auto correct what I meant to type, insert grammatically correct punctuation and just "know" what I was trying to type in the first place like my Evo seems to. Funny as it is, I think I can churn out *accurate* text faster on my Evo than on a full size physical keyboard on a regular computer.
Smart phone sized flip/slide outs aren't even a consideration anymore and I find myself thinking of them more as a quaint throwback to outdated technology than something useful - kind of like a rotary dial telephone or something.
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