Physical vs virtual keyboard

[Puzzlegal]

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

Many virtual keyboard allow you to "type" without removing your finger from the keyboard. So to type "keyboard", i put my finger on the " k", slide over to the "e", back to the " y", and so forth, only lifting my finger between words. The first keyboard to do this was Swype, and the action of "typing" this way is often called "swyping". It's not as accurate as hitting physical keys, but it's about as accurate as any other way of interacting with virtual keys, and much faster. All the phone typing speed records have been set with this style of data entry.

It takes a little while to get used to it, but once you develop proficiency, it is annoying as anything to have to individually touch each slot on the screen. I can't use the Apple keyboard because it drives me nuts. Similarly, the BlackBerry virtual keyboard hasn't implemented swyping (that i know of) and I'm unhappy using it. Swype, Swiftkey, and the default Google keyboard all allow swyping.

 

[bitek]

Many virtual keyboard allow you to "type" without removing your finger from the keyboard. So to type "keyboard", i put my finger on the " k", slide over to the "e", back to the " y", and so forth, only lifting my finger between words. The first keyboard to do this was Swype, and the action of "typing" this way is often called "swyping". It's not as accurate as hitting physical keys, but it's about as accurate as any other way of interacting with virtual keys, and much faster. All the phone typing speed records have been set with this style of data entry.

It takes a little while to get used to it, but once you develop proficiency, it is annoying as anything to have to individually touch each slot on the screen. I can't use the Apple keyboard because it drives me nuts. Similarly, the BlackBerry virtual keyboard hasn't implemented swyping (that i know of) and I'm unhappy using it. Swype, Swiftkey, and the default Google keyboard all allow swyping.

Typing on physical keyboard is much more accurate. I did try swipe and frankly blackberry virtual keyboard is much better anyways

 

[Puzzlegal]

There are advantages to both physical keys and to swyping. The BlackBerry virtual keyboard offers neither the tactile feedback of a real keyboard nor the speed and comfort of swyping. It's not bad for what it is, but i am far far slower and more awkward on it than on either of the others. Swyping is like touch typing, you need to put in an investment to gain proficiency before it's useful. But once you do, it's extremely hard to use anything else. Soooo slow and fussy...

 

[medic22003]

I'm beginning to like the pkb. Never had one before. I still think BlackBerry nailed it with their vkb too. I use them both

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[freedomx20a]

The best thing about the priv is you can choose. I would say I'm 60/40 split

In favor of pkb

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[bitek]

There are advantages to both physical keys and to swyping. The BlackBerry virtual keyboard offers neither the tactile feedback of a real keyboard nor the speed and comfort of swyping. It's not bad for what it is, but i am far far slower and more awkward on it than on either of the others. Swyping is like touch typing, you need to put in an investment to gain proficiency before it's useful. But once you do, it's extremely hard to use anything else. Soooo slow and fussy...

I've been using virtual keyboard exclusively since z10 came out. I find blackberry virtual keyboard to be really good but I find myself using priv virtual keyboard more often than virtual keyboard on priv.

1. I find that I make more mistakes on virtual keyboard
2. I can see entire screen of the phone when I type
3. I still get word suggestions which I can easily swipe
4. I like feel of touching plastic keys as opposed to touching screen
5. I do not even look at the keyboard when I type. My fingers magically find right keys. This is actually very cool

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[medic22003]

I still look at keyboards on a computer when I type so it is no surprise to me that I look at my phone. I wish I could do it without looking because that would be pretty slick. It would be like the days on my dumb phone when you found the 5 button and just went from there

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[Berrywalker]

Re: virtual vs physical keyboard experience

Real things are always better than virtual things!

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So true!!

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