Was excited, now I am torn, help!

[chevyman29]

do the smart thing and wait till you can hold both in your hand and try them for yourself.

Thanks for your service!

 

[CallerHoller]

You have to really be hooked to the physical keyboard to pass on newer tech. I went from the Droid 1 to the Thunderbolt, less then a week and I didn't miss the keyboard. I can't believe I went so long with such a small screen either.
Bigger is better for me. I really like the Galaxy Note. I'm just not going to wait four months to find out it's not going to come to Verizon.

 

[meth68#AC]

My friends made fun of my storm one, but after having a storm, droid1, x, bionic and now resound. I typed 10x faster and more accurate on my storm. The whole two letters per button and making the buttons twice as large combined with it's predictive text. It was awesome

 

[3rdpig]

My friends made fun of my storm one, but after having a storm, droid1, x, bionic and now resound. I typed 10x faster and more accurate on my storm. The whole two letters per button and making the buttons twice as large combined with it's predictive text. It was awesome

You and I are probably the only two people on this site who regret the death of Surepress. Yes, my Storm sucked diseased donkey balls. But I could handle the phone casually without calling 10 apps and changing 6 settings. And I could type quickly and accurately. I loved Surepress.

::Holds up beer:: Here's to Surepress, may it live forever in our hearts.


Now, let's get drunk and get laid repeatedly.

 

[Qazme]

You and I are probably the only two people on this site who regret the death of Surepress. Yes, my Storm sucked diseased donkey balls. But I could handle the phone casually without calling 10 apps and changing 6 settings. And I could type quickly and accurately. I loved Surepress.

::Holds up beer:: Here's to Surepress, may it live forever in our hearts.


Now, let's get drunk and get laid repeatedly.

Make that three people. I liked surepress and never had an issue with it on my Storm. I grew accustom to the android keyboard though, more specifically SwiftKeyX and Swype.

 

[pauldroidr2d2]

Surepress was okay. But, at least for me, it couldn't make up for the huge downsides of both the Storm and Storm 2. That of the almost daily battery pulls because the memory would max out and then cause the phone to freeze up, and the painfully slow web browser.

 

[mjhubbard]

My friends made fun of my storm one, but after having a storm, droid1, x, bionic and now resound. I typed 10x faster and more accurate on my storm. The whole two letters per button and making the buttons twice as large combined with it's predictive text. It was awesome

There is actually an app that you can get to give you the compact portrait keyboard you describe. I missed it too which is why I got it. Smart keyboard pro or something like that. It is great.

 

[VideoEngineerAJS]

My friends made fun of my storm one, but after having a storm, droid1, x, bionic and now resound. I typed 10x faster and more accurate on my storm. The whole two letters per button and making the buttons twice as large combined with it's predictive text. It was awesome

I liked surepress as well. However I think it had the opposite effect on me. I had the Dare and then went to the Storm and now I have the Thunderbolt.

I think going from surepress to a regular touchscreen actually improved my typing speed and accuracy on the regular touchscreens.

I actually have a really hard time using handheld physical keyboards now. Like it's really hard for me to use my mom's Droid and I type painfully slow on the remote for the Sony Blu-ray player with Google TV.

Sent from my Thunderbolt

 

[kenshell]

How many threads will the op make on the same subject?
I see two in two days already.

Come on man.

 

[meth68#AC]

There is actually an app that you can get to give you the compact portrait keyboard you describe. I missed it too which is why I got it. Smart keyboard pro or something like that. It is great.

I stried smartkeyboard pro and it was ok, there was just something with surepress that the prediction/autocorrect always seem to be correct for me. I have tried smart, better, swype, swift and multi touch and none of them work well for me, the best being swift. I cant explain it but I could rarely remember going back to correct texts on my storm.

On the other hand... my storm sucked, I went through 5 of them in less then a year lol

 

[YourMobileGuru]

You and I are probably the only two people on this site who regret the death of Surepress. Yes, my Storm sucked diseased donkey balls. But I could handle the phone casually without calling 10 apps and changing 6 settings. And I could type quickly and accurately. I loved Surepress.

::Holds up beer:: Here's to Surepress, may it live forever in our hearts.


Now, let's get drunk and get laid repeatedly.

I'm in the same boat, really liked the idea of SurePress and while the implementation wasn't the best (I think there should have been more than 4 "buttons" under the screen) it was truly innovative and in a lot of ways better, but sadly RIM bowed to the masses and the new Storms (err Torches) have a capacitive touch screen instead. A shame we never saw it on a more powerfull processor.

 

[ultravisitor]

The problem with the SurePress screen was that sometimes the screen would get stuck in the pressed position, rendering the entire phone useless. The only way to fix it was to get out a screwdriver or exchange it for a new one.

 

[YourMobileGuru]

The problem with the SurePress screen was that sometimes the screen would get stuck in the pressed position, rendering the entire phone useless. The only way to fix it was to get out a screwdriver or exchange it for a new one.

I never had that problem with either phone.

 

[ultravisitor]

It happened to me all the time with the Storm. The entire screen would get stuck, and while it would register touches, it wouldn't register clicks/presses, so I couldn't do anything.

 

[tapiocamilktea]

I'm in the same situation, deciding between the GN and the D4. I have used quite a few phones the past year, from a nokia N900 to the Moto Atrix and now to the LG quantum. The N900 truly has the best typing accuracy, and with the keyboard you don't have to look when you type. Using the Atrix with swype was pretty fast, but still not very natural to me, I would avoid it whenever possible.

I think that's the major difference between a touchscreen keyboard and a physical keyboard, a physical keyboard allows you to type without looking or checking for errors, resembles more like how you type on a computer. The big disadvantage is that it makes the phone a lot bigger. Both the GN and the D4 have similar specs, and the ICS would definitely be upgraded to the D4 in the future. So the only question is how much bigger the D4 is compared to the GN, and how the screen size compares as well.