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Which keyboard do you use most?

What keyboard do you prefer?

  • Landscape

    Votes: 28 25.2%

  • Portrait

    Votes: 83 74.8%
  • Total voters
    111
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AppleTech22

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Jul 10, 2010
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I don't know about anyone else, but although it is nice to have the landscape keyboard, I just rarely find myself using it. With the good auto-correction that is in iOS, I would rather trade the accuracy of the landscape orientation for more speed with the portrait orientation.

How about every one else?
 
The landscape keyboard is harder for me, despite being larger. I hate rotating my phone anyways.
 
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Orientation lock is always on. I like all things in portrait mode.
 
On my iPhone, the only time I use the landscape orientation is watching videos. Everything else is in portrait. I'm not sure if I have ever used the landscape keyboard. I hate using two hands to type.
 
I use portrait more often, but I prefer landscape. If the homescreen had a landscape mode I think I'd have it locked to that 24/7. Portrait is alright, but my big fingers would ideally like a little more room.
 
mousouchop said:
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Orientation lock is always on. I like all things in portrait mode.
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Same here. I rarely use landscape mode.
 
Portrait

I am so used to portrait mode when it comes to texting since having my old Nokia 3360. Better one-handed operation. Only time it is in landscape is generally for looking at pics, games, and watching videos. If I do type in landscape, the phone would have to have a slide-out QWERTY in a horizontal position. I much prefer any QWERTY phone done in portrait like the BlackBerry 9900 and without the slide-out mechanism for better durability in the longer run.
 
If I need to type something out thats more then 10 words I'm using landscape.

The only problem is at that point the keyboard takes up half the screen and you can't read much text.
 
I thumb type in portrat pretty fast. But is it me or is the iPhone 4's keyboard less responsive than it used to be on the 3GS? My guess is it's software related, but I don't know. Am I the only one getting missed key presses? Resulting in "writng like ths for exmple"? Not to mention silly autocorrections. I felt like this rarely happened on the 3GS. It's very frequent on the iPhone 4.
 
Normally I'm using potrait mode, so I'm able to type with one hand. :)
But for writing mails or long textes I'm using landscape.
 
Landscape for big walls of text, allows me to read more content and type more accurately. Portrait for fast silly texts. Long live smart iOS corrections though!
 
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