iPhone Keyboard %166 More Error Prone Than Blackberry

[abijnk]

I disagree, but thats your opinion. If you dont like suretype go to landscape for full qwerty. Something the iPhone doesnt offer yet in sms or email.

My bad, i meant surepress. Basically, you can't get going very fast because you have to depress the whole screen. I was playing with it the other day and couldn't go near as fast for that reason. I got going to fast that the screen didn't have time to spring back and I was basically not hitting any keys...

 

[kdarling]

I dont think the iPhone auto correct gets enough credit. Its quite frankly, amazing.

1) It's okay, but I prefer other phones with autosuggest (a better scheme IMO) where *you* get to choose from a list of matching words *if* you want, instead of the device substituting words and letters behind your back.

2) The sheer need for autocorrection is proof that most tiny keyboards are not that accurate.

3) For people who are lousy spellers (and that seems to be a lot of young iPhone owners, judging from their posts here), I suppose any autocorrection would help.

There is no one-size-fits-all tiny keyboard. For that matter, a lot of people still have huge troubles with a QWERTY layout.

The cleverest (and fastest) tiny keyboard scheme I've seen, is one where you trace your finger through the letters that make up a word. No need to lift up except between words.

 

[Vegastouch]

1) It's okay, but I prefer other phones with autosuggest (a better scheme IMO) where *you* get to choose from a list of matching words *if* you want, instead of the device substituting words and letters behind your back.

2) The sheer need for autocorrection is proof that most tiny keyboards are not that accurate.

3) For people who are lousy spellers (and that seems to be a lot of young iPhone owners, judging from their posts here), I suppose any autocorrection would help.

There is no one-size-fits-all tiny keyboard. For that matter, a lot of people still have huge troubles with a QWERTY layout.

The cleverest (and fastest) tiny keyboard scheme I've seen, is one where you trace your finger through the letters that make up a word. No need to lift up except between words.

Dont agree at all. For me it is because the keyboard on the iPhone is sensitive and it hits the wrong letters a lot and thus puts up the correct possible word for me to choose. That is the biggest reason i dont like the iPhone keyboard. Too damn sensitive so i make way many more mistakes on that than i ever did on the Blackberry...which by the way is excellent for texting, typing, whatever. It never mispelled a word and always gave me the right ones to choose from.

For the guy that said he doubts the Storm has autocorrect......it has some thing better that all Blackberry's have. Better accuracy and words to choose from. I also often have the problem with the iPhone that i somehow often keep hitting a button that makes me start a new sentence, but it doesnt leave a period but instead always drops to a new line and starts with a capital letter.
I hate that. Cant stress enough how much i hate the iPhone keyboard....but it does too damn much to be the reason to get rid of it. I dont text enough to warrant that.

 

[ucfgrad93]

While I've never used a Blackberry, I find the iPhone keyboard to be pretty accurate for me. I like it.

 

[The General]

Fanboyism at its finest.

You doubt it has auto-correct? It does BTW.

God-awful "suretype crap"? Have you even tried the Storm? As an iPhone user for a year and a half I say with no bias, and I LOVED the iPhone and wish I could still use it, that the Storm keyboard and typing mechanism is better.

I have used the Storm. It seems to have T9 error correction, which doesn't really work for QWERTY keyboards. If and He are no where near eachother on a QWERTY keyboard.

Also, why should I have to click the screen if it KNOWS I'M TOUCHING THE KEYS? It takes too much effort. Typing is nearly impossible on the Storm.

 

[Rayfire]

I realized the pros and cons before buying myself an iPhone, this was one of them but I'm impressed after weeks of usage (shall I say months since July 11th) I can pretty say I can type accurately on an iPhone keyboard without any problems at all. It's pretty sensitive which was really helpful for me.

 

[daisuke07]

Apple should implement some sort of custom dictionary. Not sure why they havent. They claim it is suppose to learn how you type but it never did for me. There are some abbreviations I used alot and it always tried to give me something else.

mine doesnt learn either. i type lol the most often & i send a lot of texts a day & it took like a month for it to figure it out so itd always capitalize lol making it LOL

& u made an error %166 