Took me and my wife only a couple of days to master texting. Also, I've noticed that certain casing on iPhones can affect your texting. I have this clear case on mine that I got from Best Buy, waiting for my LRG x Monster case, and it intrudes on the sides as well as the bottom. Aside from that I love texting on the iPhone.
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Text Messaging/Typing on iPhone
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Friend. Worry not, it takes a day or so but you'll find the iPhone to be much easier than the BB. Playing with a phone at the Apple store wont do you any good. Typing on the iPhone is all about trust. I had mine from june 29th last year until... uh.. a week ago when I sold it.
I can tell you for sure. that by the time i sold it I wasn't much better at hitting the right key than I was on week one... But I rarely had to correct myself. I mean I'd go as far as to say that I used the iPhone to spell check myself the auto correct was that good.
You can type without looking... but thats tricky sometimes you end up with a pretty sentence... other times you end up with dihaw htnwjnaf kjhawui fawui
I'm also spending the month on a T9 phone... god I hate sending SMS now!
-July 11th cant come soon enough... (still don't know if I'm going black or white... but if people are right and the back is the same material as 1G nanos... well i have a black one... been in a case all its life and even the case scratched it all up!)
This is the key. Once I did this typing is beautiful. Now every time I touch anything else I am immediately disgusted.
I'm not sure about an, but jailbreaking does not change the fact that you can't text via landscape.
Not for SMS texting, but you can get the landscape keyboard in safari - whenever you have it sideways and are prompted to type.
While the landscape keyboard is certainly even easier, it doesn't really give that much room for text -- just a line or two at a time. So even if the 2.0 software allowed for landscape texting, I don't think I'd ever use it. The portrait keyboard, while smaller, still has almost error-free typing no matter how quickly you do it. The only problem is when the predictive text has more than one option for the "mistake" you just typed, and displays the wrong one. But that's rare -- and even when you go back and retype something, it can STILL be faster overall than regular and even t9 texting.