Comments on: In Praise Of The Touchscreen Keyboard… http://isource.com/2008/04/27/in-praise-of-the-touchscreen-keyboard/ #1 Source for iPad, iPhone, iPod, Mac and AppleTV Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:15:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.6 By: peteo http://isource.com/2008/04/27/in-praise-of-the-touchscreen-keyboard/#comment-751 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:15:06 +0000 http://isource.com/2008/04/27/in-praise-of-the-touchscreen-keyboard/#comment-751 Guys, I have to disagree with you. While I’m finnaly used to the iPhone keyboard, I still have to say that a real keyboard is better for me in most cases. I guess it depends on the phone you used before the iPhone. Mine was the sidekick and helio ocean. The sidekick keyboard cant be beat. Its way better than any other phone keyboard I have used. The iPhone kills it in every other way but the sidekick keyboard still rules the smart phone keyboards.

]]> By: Fun Bobby http://isource.com/2008/04/27/in-praise-of-the-touchscreen-keyboard/#comment-750 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:35:56 +0000 http://isource.com/2008/04/27/in-praise-of-the-touchscreen-keyboard/#comment-750 …slide out keyboard, no chance. HTC has one that I toyed with. It felt flimsy. I am not sure it would be possible to make a cost effective one that would feel solid. Besides that, the profile of it would undobtedly be much thicker. That would stink as well.

The main advantage of the iPhone is that the screen is multi-use. The Blackberry has half of the front side space dedicated to a keyboard so the screen is small and unsuitable for video. Can you imagine a Blackberry with a screen as big as the iPhone’s, but still the hardware button keyboard? It would be huge!

For all the downsides of a glass screen keyboard, the monstrous upside is the multi-use, and large glorious video! 🙂

I will keep my glass screen thanks.

]]> By: etavecca http://isource.com/2008/04/27/in-praise-of-the-touchscreen-keyboard/#comment-748 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:36:07 +0000 http://isource.com/2008/04/27/in-praise-of-the-touchscreen-keyboard/#comment-748 I find touch-typing on the iPhone a lot faster and less tiring than a physical keyboard on a smartphone. The spellcheck definitely helps too. This is after I’ve owned and typed a fair bit on Nokia 6820, E70, E61i, 9300 and 9500. As with most good designs, why didn’t someone think of this earlier?

]]> By: Ragart http://isource.com/2008/04/27/in-praise-of-the-touchscreen-keyboard/#comment-747 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:07:33 +0000 http://isource.com/2008/04/27/in-praise-of-the-touchscreen-keyboard/#comment-747 I freaking love SIPs. So the iPhone keyboard is right up my alley. My alley is called “SIPs Alley”.

]]> By: danc http://isource.com/2008/04/27/in-praise-of-the-touchscreen-keyboard/#comment-746 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:21:55 +0000 http://isource.com/2008/04/27/in-praise-of-the-touchscreen-keyboard/#comment-746 Brandon- you raise a good point- and not just with regard to abbreviations- for me the weakest link in using keyboard comes when typing short two or three letter words that aren’t long enough for the self-correction to grab. Still, I find it a lot faster and easier than a physical keyboard.

]]> By: Brandon http://isource.com/2008/04/27/in-praise-of-the-touchscreen-keyboard/#comment-745 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:55:29 +0000 http://isource.com/2008/04/27/in-praise-of-the-touchscreen-keyboard/#comment-745 While I do find some issues with the keyboard on occasion (usually when it thinks I mean one abreviation instead of something else) most of the time I find I can type a lot faster in the soft keyboard of the iPhone or the iPod touch than I ever could on the keyboard of something like the 8525.

Again it really does come down to just trusting the keyboard to know what you really meant to type. I really don’t worry to much about how long a reply to something like this post is going to be – mainly because I can reply fairly rapidly. I never used to do that on my WM devices.

I know a loy people throw that arguement into the whole WM vs iPhone arguement… But until you’ve used utnfor an extended period of time (and not switched devices daily) you never really get the hang of it.

Short answer: I love the keyboard on the iPhone/touch. Hated it for the first couple weeks.

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