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Why do reviews say the iPhone 3Gs NEEDS more buttons and a physical keyboard?

Hawkeye411 said:
Typing on my iPhone is a pain. Too many errors due to the lack of feedback. It's more difficult to determine the location of the keys when compared to a physical keyboard. With a physical keyboard it's possible to type without actually looking at the keyboard.

Love my iPhone but I personally would like the addition of a sliding keyboard.

Cheers.
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i can type without looking just fine... u just have to learn the distance exactly as u would on a physical keyboard.
 
It takes maybe a week to get used to a virtual keyboard. Many reviewers probably got a BlackBerry earlier on and are used to those keyboards and being uber cool like the kid who won an award for texting last week. If they like their physical keyboards, fine. But I HATE them after trying to use my sister's Curve. Do you really want to flip half the phone would every time you just need to type 8 letters in a Google search?
 
zacheryjensen said:
I disagree with this. I used to agree, in fact, I was certain I'd always be staring. Then one day after spending almost an hour instant messaging with an old friend who was almost never online while I was stuck waiting for an appointment, I realized I was doing something unthinkable.

I was typing without so much as looking at the keyboard at all!

I was so interested in the messages flowing from the other person who had no idea I was delayed in my typing from being on a phone that I had finally adapted to the virtual keyboard.

It's really quite simple, and of course, it's the reason I now hate the landscape keyboard (whoops!). I simply memorized where my fingers had to be for each key, subconsciously, and no longer have to stare. This is the same as touch typing on a physical keyboard I realized as with proper touch typing, you orient for the home keys but you do not somehow slide your fingers around the keyboard to feel where the next key is, that's preposterous.

When you touch type on a real keyboard you've simply memorized where your fingers should move relative to your original position. On the iPhone, my "home" position is the relative position of my fingers with my phone held with two hands in a specific way with my pinky fingers supporting it from the bottom and so forth.

So frankly the idea that you can't touch type on an onscreen keyboard is just yet another lie born from people's failure to realize that all interfaces besides the nipple are learned.
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Man ..... I wish I was as good as you. WE'RE NOT WORTHY!! WE'RE NOT WORTHY!! :D :rolleyes:
 
A lot of people have been discussing the keyboard here, but I would personally like to see an extra physical button added, with the default option of launching the camera application and also acting as a shutter once inside the application.

Probably located on the opposite side to the ringer/silence switch and would be a jack-of-all-trades button, available through the API for third party applications to take advantage of.
 
Who cares what the reviewers are saying! As if Apple listens to what others say about their products. Unless you are an owner, you can put your reviews in a hand basket. I'm pretty sure Apple will never turn the way of BB.....:eek::eek::eek:
 
I like the onscreen keyboard. It prevents people from texting while driving. Makes the roads safer for everyone. :)

However, this doesn't prevent people from texting while driving.
 
I prefer the virtual keyboard, but come on folks there are times that you wished you had a real keyboard such as:

- When the virtual keyboard LAGS - this would never happen w/ a physical keyboard

Ultimately, some people prefer physical & others don't. Why does EVERYTHING have to become a battle?

Seriously folks, many of you really need to get a life.

w00master
 
i think the addition of would add unnecessary bulk to the iphone. this would detract from a beautiful design in my opinion. besides, like many of you i initially hated the virtual keyboard but over time i like it.

change and adapt.....you will be assimilated :p
 
physical keyboards are just so 2007...

unless your keyboard is in braille do to your needs then it is just a waste anymore.

I do not miss having a BB with each key have 3-4 different letters or numbers or punctuations etc... ugh it was so annoying !
 
qwerty2k said:
iphone 3gs is my first touch screen phone, i txt more than i phone so thought i may suffer, if anything txting has become vastly quicker with the touchscreen keyboard.
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Most my friends think of me as a nerdy geek so it just comes with the territory.
 
I wonder why they would think the 3GS needs more buttons. If only we could see the future of smart phones and what they'd be like.

Do you think the new phones will have things like.. a fingerprint sensor? Psh just kidding. That would be WEIRD! XD
 
Holy necro...

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swish2351 said:
The last post on this thread was 4 years ago, what compelled you to post here?
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Actually it's a Tapatalk HD error.

Somehow a reply post on the alternatives forum, got put onto a completely different thread altogether.... ????? :confused:

Holy Freak !!!! Sorry folks.
 
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