Bet you can't type....

[ultimateceej]

Aha!

Opie's post made me think of it.

It works fine in landscape mode. I can type every letter on the top row after "donat" in landscape, but not portrait. Apparently with the extra room per letter, the autocorrect doesn't make the 'good' letters target areas overlap the 'bad' letters completely.

In landscape mode, the 'good' letters still have large target areas, but not so large as to completely obscure the 'bad' letters. (Try it, open Safari, flip to landscape, then type "donat" (in the address or search boxes works,) then press 'q', and very slowly slide your finger across the top row. You'll find some letters have very small target areas, some have large target areas. My guess is that in portrait mode, those 'bad' letters have shrunk down to *zero* target area.

Great catch!!

 

[bradenwh]

Hehe

When the iPhone predicts what you're going to type, it enlarges the target area of it's predicted letter, overlapping other less-likely letters. For the most part, it works absolutely great. But for names, like in your case, it can be annoying.

But, for the 99% of people who don't have names that the iPhone doesn't like, it's great.

 

[ScootPatoot]

But, for the 99% of people who don't have names that the iPhone doesn't like, it's great.

Makes sense. *Off to the Social Security office to change name*

How does Scoot Smith sound?

 

[milani]

Try typing "donato" without the quotes. For me it always ends up donati. I then have to click the back space and re-enter the "o" to get it correct. Anyone able to do it? I'll give a quarter to whoever can do it.

Confirmed. Doesn't let you type the o.

 

[rs13]

What the duck are you talking about?

i know exactly what you were typing when you got duck and im pretty sure it has nothing to do with a small feathered animal

 

[Robby9279]

Worked for me first time. HONEST.... Must be the jailbreak

cool keyboard, and yeah I bet it is the JB

 

[CarlsonCustoms]

the first few times I typed Zack it tried to set it as Sack which is very annoying but after a few manual corrects it remembers my name without correction.

but i did send a few emails out signed Sack.. how embarrasing

 

[amro]

It's never liked my name. Try typing in "amro". It always insist on amri. If I go a little further to the right it does amrp. Funny thing is that since I have my name as a contact, it auto corrects itself.

 

[TMar]

yeah I noticed this the other day if you try to type toma and try to hit r it will not let you. You can slide your finger between the e and t but it will not let you hit the r.

 

[vinay427]

Try typing "donato" without the quotes. For me it always ends up donati. I then have to click the back space and re-enter the "o" to get it correct. Anyone able to do it? I'll give a quarter to whoever can do it.

Happened to me too.

 

[crisss1205]

This is one of the features of the phone. It knows there is no such word in the dictionary so it widens the typing area. As shown in iPhone (2G) video a while ago about the iPhone keyboard. The demo in that Apple made video was the word "time" The phone wont let you type "T I M R" or "T I M W".

Here is the point in the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GOvt4mwwi4#t=2m46s

 

[PowerFullMac]

The iPhone also dosent like the words "Aspie" and "DeLorean".

 

[Anonymous Freak]

This is one of the features of the phone. It knows there is no such word in the dictionary so it widens the typing area. As shown in iPhone (2G) video a while ago about the iPhone keyboard. The demo in that Apple made video was the word "time" The phone wont let you type "T I M R" or "T I M W".

Here is the point in the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GOvt4mwwi4#t=2m46s

It's a great idea; but not when it makes it truly impossible to hit a letter. And in this case, it prevents the typing of two legitimate words; while specifically allowing combinations that don't lead to real words.

It should at least allow you to 'hit and slide' so that, in this example, you aim for 'o', get 'i', then slide off 'i' and back on to 'o'.

Basically, 'e' has expanded so that neither 'w' nor 'r' can be hit at all, and 'i' has been expanded so that you can't hit 'u' or 'o'. Even though you can make perfectly legitimate words with 'o'.