Physical vs virtual keyboard

[Billy Bob Jimmy Joe]

Re: virtual vs physical keyboard experience

Double-typing?

When you press a key once and it registers twice. For example, if I want to type: Hello, how are you doing? It'll show: Heellloo, hoow aaree yoou doinng?

Google Nexus 6P

 

[bitek]

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When you press a key once and it registers twice. For example, if I want to type: Hello, how are you doing? It'll show: Heellloo, hoow aaree yoou doinng?

Google Nexus 6P

I do not have this with my phone. One thing I find about typing on physical keyboard is that I hardly make any mistakes. Physical keyboard is much more accurate than virtual keyboard. Also blackberry priv specific I can flick from up to three suggestions with easy.

With virtual keyboards I would always make mistakes and I would frequently get messages with errors from people who own iPhone.

 

[bitek]

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It's me as well.

It's interesting that, if you think about it, you realise that you don't know with your eyes closed where a particular letter is located on a keyboard, or some letters at least. Yet when typing, the fingers know, and go straight to it. Or perhaps that's just me.

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This is absolutely true. Right now I am typing this message and I do not look at keyboard at all. Just the screen which is not obscured by virtual keyboard.

As I said before people who never had experience with physical keyboard should really give it try.

 

[Igor Sholomov]

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Look android keyboard setting can be configured. You just get used to it and writing speed will be fast.

 

[Igor Sholomov]

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for a large tablet is better to use a physical keyboard

 

[Billy Bob Jimmy Joe]

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I find it so easy to type in a virtual keyboard that I won't ever want to go back to a physical one.

Google Nexus 6P

 

[bitek]

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I find it so easy to type in a virtual keyboard that I won't ever want to go back to a physical one.

Google Nexus 6P

When was the last time you used physical keyboard ?

 

[Billy Bob Jimmy Joe]

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When was the last time you used physical keyboard ?

I've mentioned in this thread being displeased with the Q10 and Classic.

Google Nexus 6P

 

[bitek]

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I've mentioned in this thread being displeased with the Q10 and Classic.

Google Nexus 6P

Priv keyboard is more like passport keyboard because it has touch capacitors which allow swiping, scrolling etc. Very cool engineering if you ask me

 

[ToniCipriani]

For long replies it has to be the physical. The so-called autocomplete intelligence actually slows me down. I'm okay with the VKB for short replies or passwords, maybe a bit for the VKB for the number row.

 

[dtourond]

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When I was in elementary school, we had this typing software to help us learn how to type without looking at the keyboard. On a desktop, I'm perfectly fine not looking at the keyboard, especially as I'm writing this now. However, on my phone, if I don't look at least once in a while, I tend to make spelling mistakes. I currently have the LG G3 and as much as I like it, sometimes, it can be a real p.i.t.a. because I'll move my thumb from the right to left side and the skin around my thumb will show up on the screen, thus entering keys that I didn't intend to type.

On a somewhat side-note, I'm a little disappointed with how the Google keyboard doesn't understand that putting a hyphen between words doesn't make the words incorrect. How many times have I entered something with an “re-” or “un-” prefix and the keyboard underlines it as if it's incorrect. It's the only keyboard I really like though, because the other ones I feel are either full of features that I'll never use or don't have the customization options to disable features that I know I'll never use. For example, I don't do ‘emojis.’ The most I'll do in that regard is type out either a sad face, happy face or disgruntled face in ascii text.

 

[dtourond]

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Physical keyboard is much more accurate than virtual keyboard.

For me, that seems to be the case with desktop keyboards, but the last time I tried using a physical keyboard on a smartphone, I found the keys too small (even for me).

 

[bitek]

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For me, that seems to be the case with desktop keyboards, but the last time I tried using a physical keyboard on a smartphone, I found the keys too small (even for me).

You should try priv. Blackberry keyboards are the best in business. No one comes close.

 

[dtourond]

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I've borrowed BlackBerry phones in the past and I didn't like the keyboards because I felt they were too small and I didn't like how the keys were shaped.

 

[so crow]

If I'm writing something long will use the physical only time I use it.

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[ToniCipriani]

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You should try priv. Blackberry keyboards are the best in business. No one comes close.

I'm happy for the Priv as they only physical keyboard Android now and I'mma let you finish, but the Curve had the best keyboard of all time.

 

[shabbs]

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I'm happy for the Priv as they only physical keyboard Android now and I'mma let you finish, but the Curve had the best keyboard of all time.

Loved my Curve 8900 physical keyboard. Was wicked fast on that mofo. Bold 9900 was amazing too.

 

[Puzzlegal]

I bought this for the physical keyboard, but find i don't use it much. I like it well enough when I do use it, but I rarely bother to open it up. I've been messing around with virtual keyboards. I used to like swype, but it's gotten overly heavy, and I think it slows down the os. I don't care for swiftly. It's good at predicting your next word, but I don't want to stop and look at the keyboard like that. It's swyping accuracy is poor. The bby keyboard doesn't swype at all, so I don't have the patience to use it. So I'm mostly using the default Google keyboard, which has gotten pretty good. I miss some of the features from swype. (Is there an easy way to change the capitalization of a word?) But mostly I like it.

 

[bitek]

I bought this for the physical keyboard, but find i don't use it much. I like it well enough when I do use it, but I rarely bother to open it up. I've been messing around with virtual keyboards. I used to like swype, but it's gotten overly heavy, and I think it slows down the os. I don't care for swiftly. It's good at predicting your next word, but I don't want to stop and look at the keyboard like that. It's swyping accuracy is poor. The bby keyboard doesn't swype at all, so I don't have the patience to use it. So I'm mostly using the default Google keyboard, which has gotten pretty good. I miss some of the features from swype. (Is there an easy way to change the capitalization of a word?) But mostly I like it.

What do you mean by not swiping ? One thing I find about physical keyboard is that typing on physical keyboard is much more accurate. I hardly ever make mistakes. Virtual keyboard even with good prediction capabilities still match priv in texting accuracy

 

[mcgilcoli]

I'm mostly using it as a slab. I like the "flick" feature and am very used to it from my Z10. I have tried the scrolling feature of the PKB when browsing websites and like that.