OK so when the early criticism was flying about the huge chin on our pixels, I didn't think it was such a big deal. Though I'm a fan of fingerprint sensors on the front instead of back in general, the chin didn't bother me.
Slowly, after using the pixel for 1.5 months, its hit me. The chin being as tall, combined with the space taken up by the soft keys pushes the keyboard up a lot higher on the screen real estate relative to the bottom of the phone where my hands nestle the phone. This made the Spacebar sit a LOT higher than it normally would on most phones and I found myself making a ton of typing errors, where I'd accidentally hit space when trying to hit a character on the bottom row. This would kick in autocorrect for the partial word and mean a lot of backspace work to set things right. Incredibly frustrating to type at any reasonably fast pace.
I kept looking for ways to minimize the soft keys themselves but seems that's not easy to do, especially unrooted. Then I tried a bunch of different keyboards - gboard (default) swiftkey, fleksy. I kept changing keyboard height too. No luck, I was having the same issues with all of them. Was hitting Spacebar when going for any of the bottom row keys because the keyboard sits up so high on screen.
Finally found this one keyboard "chrooma" that has a very thin Spacebar and that has solved my issues. I'm liking this keyboard a lot, it generally seems to be a clone of gboard with just different character spacing and a much thinner Spacebar. You can set a dedicated number key up top, which I liked about the recent gboard update also. No gif search which is a bummer but overall, its a god send for me.
Figured I'd share this in case anyone else was having the same issue. Darn chin!!
Slowly, after using the pixel for 1.5 months, its hit me. The chin being as tall, combined with the space taken up by the soft keys pushes the keyboard up a lot higher on the screen real estate relative to the bottom of the phone where my hands nestle the phone. This made the Spacebar sit a LOT higher than it normally would on most phones and I found myself making a ton of typing errors, where I'd accidentally hit space when trying to hit a character on the bottom row. This would kick in autocorrect for the partial word and mean a lot of backspace work to set things right. Incredibly frustrating to type at any reasonably fast pace.
I kept looking for ways to minimize the soft keys themselves but seems that's not easy to do, especially unrooted. Then I tried a bunch of different keyboards - gboard (default) swiftkey, fleksy. I kept changing keyboard height too. No luck, I was having the same issues with all of them. Was hitting Spacebar when going for any of the bottom row keys because the keyboard sits up so high on screen.
Finally found this one keyboard "chrooma" that has a very thin Spacebar and that has solved my issues. I'm liking this keyboard a lot, it generally seems to be a clone of gboard with just different character spacing and a much thinner Spacebar. You can set a dedicated number key up top, which I liked about the recent gboard update also. No gif search which is a bummer but overall, its a god send for me.
Figured I'd share this in case anyone else was having the same issue. Darn chin!!
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