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What is the best keyboard possible that includes the longest spacebar size anywhere?
By "best" keyboard I mean good auto correct and fast number entering.
Borg1982 said:
What is the best keyboard possible that includes the longest spacebar size anywhere?
By "best" keyboard I mean good auto correct and fast number entering.
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I'm a fan of Swype. Works well and the number / symbol toggle is opposite the period and ample size to avoid hitting the key next to it (comma).
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I like Smart Keyboard Pro.
Paid app, but well worth in IMO
Swype all the way.
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Ah same here,i wonder if the droid x KB,or any other, could b modded to have a longer space bar. Its very annoying.
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SWYPE FTW! I used the normal keyboard for 1 day before I couldn't take it anymore. Tried Swype & have NEVER looked back. I only get back to stock keyboard to occassionally use the mic to text while driving.
LAYGO said:
SWYPE FTW! I used the normal keyboard for 1 day before I couldn't take it anymore. Tried Swype & have NEVER looked back. I only get back to stock keyboard to occassionally use the mic to text while driving.
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Hey just an fyi.. If you hit menu while the keyboard is up there its a speak option
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Swype. I can't go back now.
What do you think of htc's keyboard? It's decent, but does anyone else think those arrows are a waste of space? i wish i had a smiley key too , and i find the space key too small, i keep pressing the "." all the time , i switched to the gingerbread keyboard but i REALLY miss the bilingual prediction , thats what keeping me from dropping the htc keyboard
Same as the egos
But then again I use smartkeyboard pro skinned to droidx
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there's a opinion over at inspire apps check it out
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I liked the inspire keyboard better then the gengerbread keyboard. I fat finger more on the gengerbread keyboard.
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Same here, when I first got my inspire the first thing I noticed was those unnecessary arrow keys. The stock gingerbread keyboard is much more to my liking
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there are lots of different options for a good keyboard
You can use inspired ace from gtg465x. You can flash a no arrow keys add-on.
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Better keyboard..check it on the market
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I like the Inspire keyboard, but in portrait mode it is to small and in landscape it is to big. Any suggestions of one similiar but just a bit smaller? I'm still stock, so it would need to be installed. Is there an apk file for the gingerbread keyboard?
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I absolutely HATE the stock keyboard! I usually end up having to re-type everything 2-3 times because the "autocorrect" grabs the wrong words. I can't stand the way shifted characters change positions on the screen if you press the "12#" key.
I'll be the first one in line to buy a "Inspire 4G Shift" if HTC adds a slide-out qwerty keyboard, much like they added to the Evo.
Evos
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I have all prediction, correction, completion turned off. I'm just needing a keyboard with a better feel size wise. It would be nice if there was an option to size the keyboard.
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zuriken said:
I absolutely HATE the stock keyboard! I usually end up having to re-type everything 2-3 times because the "autocorrect" grabs the wrong words. I can't stand the way shifted characters change positions on the screen if you press the "12#" key.
I'll be the first one in line to buy a "Inspire 4G Shift" if HTC adds a slide-out qwerty keyboard, much like they added to the Evo.
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shifted characters?
basskidd said:
You can use inspired ace from gtg465x. You can flash a no arrow keys add-on.
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is that the keyboard form the htc sensation?
Why not just install the older HTC sense keyboard? It is identical but without the arrows, and it has the Smileys button. Over in the nexus one forum is where i get it.
I like the keyboard, the arrows are unnecessary but they don't bother me
Is there any good keyboards in the market?
thecrazy88 said:
Is there any good keyboards in the market?
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Swiftkey is nice. Recently got flex t9 free from amazon market and liking that one as well.
I like the arrows. They come in handy when you need to navigate to different fields. But support for that is kinda spotty. And I agree, key board is too big in landscape mode. Makes the rest of the screen unusable, at least its got a handy hide button.
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Coming from an iPhone, I like the keyboard on my Inspire much better than the iPhone and easier to use.
Hi there,
Anybody made the switch from the HTC Desire to the HTC Sensation and missing the trackpad?
Thoughts\opinions??
samir_d said:
Hi there,
Anybody made the switch from the HTC Desire to the HTC Sensation and missing the trackpad?
Thoughts\opinions??
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The only thing I miss from my Desire. It was so much easier for editing text. Also was good for websites with drop down menu's so you could highlight them.
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Thats exactly what I was thinking...Im gonna really miss the trackpad..but i guess i'll have to learn to adapt...My HTC Sensation Arrived today so cant wait ti get him to get home!
"You'll Never Walk Alone"
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I remember trackball in Hero. Much better then trackpad.
samir_d said:
Thats exactly what I was thinking...Im gonna really miss the trackpad..but i guess i'll have to learn to adapt...My HTC Sensation Arrived today so cant wait ti get him to get home!
"You'll Never Walk Alone"
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Also forgot I had it to wake and unlock the Desire too.
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I had a Wildfire. I kind of miss it. I used to to edit text.
Editing text was the only time I used it. The Sensation is pretty good at going to the right place, though, but it would be nice to have it (or arrows or something on the keyboard)
My last phone was the Hero and I only miss the trackball when I want to move the cursor in text. I never used the trackball for anything else, it's a minor annoyance but I'm sure I get over it.
The track pad was a great tool. I miss it do you.
Conference call
Anyone missing the conference call feature or hand free voice dial?
Yes, I very much miss the trackpad from my Desire. I'm still using my Desire until the sim unlock for the Senstation is available (in Canada). Used the trackpad to bring up the unlock screen and for navigating the text to correct words.
The Sensation isn't too bad without the trackpad so far with the larger screen and new Swype beta. I'll manage without it, but I will miss it.
I tried selecting text on my Sensation the other day and it was horrible. I miss my trackball from my Nexus One, but by the looks of things, Google abandonded the trackball/pad as the Nexus S has neither.
Yes trackball on the N1 was awesome. Differnt color lights for all of your notifications + all the same reasons already mentioned. The notification colors were my favorite though. I knew if i had a voicemail, text, gmail, calendar alert, missed call each had a different color. Unlocking was nice too.
Just get a 3rd party keyboard. most have arrows and there is one with a software trackpad, can't remember its name.. I use Swype..
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Yes trackball on the N1 was awesome. Differnt color lights for all of your notifications + all the same reasons already mentioned. The notification colors were my favorite though. I knew if i had a voicemail, text, gmail, calendar alert, missed call each had a different color. Unlocking was nice too.
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+1, miss my colors!!!!
setzer715 said:
+1, miss my colors!!!!
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I would think it would be easy enough for HTC to put a multi color led inplace of one of the existing LEDs. Or maybe multi color LEDs for the capacitive keys. One thing for sure, the colored notifications was a great feature that the dev community perfected.
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I would think it would be easy enough for HTC to put a multi color led inplace of one of the existing LEDs. Or maybe multi color LEDs for the capacitive keys. One thing for sure, the colored notifications was a great feature that the dev community perfected.
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Is there no way to customize the LED that the Sensation has once the phone is fully rooted?
For why a trackpad when you have a full 4.3 inch touchscreen. Wtf
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For those wanting it to edit text you guys can hold it down a little and slide you're finger then the little magnifying thing will pop up. Find that faster and more useful at times
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I use Multiling keyboard free from the Market which can jump between characters using the volume rocker. Works very well for me.
I have tried a ton of keyboards and I just can't seem to find anything that is useful with our skinny little screen. I dislike the non-configurationablism of the stock keyboard.
Anyone have a preference? I'm not big on sliding keyboards. I have slideit full version, but dislike it as well. I dislike prediction and prefer double-touch enabled keyboards.
Any recommendations?
Tried:
Stock (heh)
Go Keyboard
Swiftkey X (Phone)
Thumb Keyboard
slideit
better keyboard 8
probably others I'm not remembering
Have you tried thumb keyboard? You can adjust pretty much anything including keyboard dimensions and layout.
I use it on both my xoom and sensation. Its great!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.beansoft.keyboardplus&feature=search_result
El Daddy said:
Have you tried thumb keyboard? You can adjust pretty much anything including keyboard dimensions and layout.
I use it on both my xoom and sensation. Its great!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.beansoft.keyboardplus&feature=search_result
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yeah I bought it and use it on my tablet. I will give it a shot right now.
Yeah.. I stopped using that one because it is not multi-touch. The creator of that app told me he will be releasing a multi-touch version later.
I type too fast for a single touch display. often one finger will not fully lift before another drops down and it causes me to miss very often.
Better keyboard is great in that respect, but is lacking the features of thumb keyboard.
Just tried go keyboard for the first time. It's pretty good but it's multitouch works differently than better keyboard 8. If you press F and then press U before F is released on BK8, it puts the U in on keydown but if you do the same with GO it puts the U in when the F lifts.
My top favorites are SwiftKey and A.I. Keyboard..they work great for me!
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bought swiftkey X (phone). Not sure I will like it, but I'm going to play with it some more later to see if I can tweak it out. Looks very nice for prediction junkies though. pretty nice.
I'm going to see if I can get into prediction typing.
May I recommend GO Keyborad??
To me its just the perfect size and have the keyboard theme set to white which compliments alot of pages I visit and the pressed color to it is also nice....... Lime in color!!
Also I would suggest editing your OP with a listing so at least folks know what you have used ;-) food for thought
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solrac.dc said:
May I recommend GO Keyborad??
To me its just the perfect size and have the keyboard theme set to white which compliments alot of pages I visit and the pressed color to it is also nice....... Lime in color!!
Also I would suggest editing your OP with a listing so at least folks know what you have used ;-) food for thought
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Yeah listing would have been a good idea. I just couldn't remember off the top of my head and didn't have my phone handy.
I tried GO. it's decent. I want better! '
I think I'm just going to be hosed because the width of the keys are too small for my fat fingers when used with this small screen in portrait.
Maybe I will just be stuck in landscape and double thumbing.
Best keyboard imo is swype. You can't get it on the market for now but you can register on beta.swype.com it works like a charme! You may need 2-3 days but then you will be definitely faster than typing.
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chisleu said:
Yeah.. I stopped using that one because it is not multi-touch. The creator of that app told me he will be releasing a multi-touch version later.
I type too fast for a single touch display. often one finger will not fully lift before another drops down and it causes me to miss very often.
Better keyboard is great in that respect, but is lacking the features of thumb keyboard.
Just tried go keyboard for the first time. It's pretty good but it's multitouch works differently than better keyboard 8. If you press F and then press U before F is released on BK8, it puts the U in on keydown but if you do the same with GO it puts the U in when the F lifts.
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I'm the developer of Thumb Keyboard. I stumbled upon this thread because I have a Sensation myself (love it btw).
Thumb Keyboard 4.x is already multi-touch.
If there are any suggestions to improve the keyboard let me know. I already built in an option to resize the font, because the high resolution of the qHD display will reduce the size of the font (which is great in the case of some other apps btw). Any other suggestions/requests for the sensation display are very welcome.
Btw an update will be released this weekend or begin next week with, amongst others, a split keyboard with cursor keys. Works great on the Sensation. But that's my very biased opinion. Also it will be packed with a ton of downloadable high Res themes.
try smart keyboard...its amazing and full of options to costumize...im using this keyboard since my first android phone
You can always give 8pen a go. Who knows? Maybe you'll be the one that fully masters it. I'm also waiting on the beta of Touchpal Curve Input to be released. You can find a few videos of it on YouTube.
Best keyboard imo is swype. You can't get it on the market for now but you can register on beta.swype.com it works like a charme! You may need 2-3 days but then you will be definitely faster than typing.
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Interesting...I just signed up for it. I knew our standard keyboard wasn't Swype, but how is Swype different?
orihuri said:
try smart keyboard...its amazing and full of options to costumize...im using this keyboard since my first android phone
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+1 for smart keyboard, has arrow keys configurable to be on the main screen, key size customization and a bunch more. I regret it does not have copy paste commands, afaik.
https://market.android.com/details?id=net.cdeguet.smartkeyboardpro&hl=en
I'm sure there will be something out there for your talented fingers and I literally laughed out loud when you stated about the size of this screen.
You must be a bodyguard?? J/ K
GL again and I am sure that you will find something ;-)
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BETTER KEYBOARD... it should be named as "Best keyboard"
chisleu said:
I dislike prediction and prefer double-touch enabled keyboards.
Any recommendations?
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Ultra Keyboard if you haven't already tried it.
FlexT9? I think is double touch. It's basically a combo of swype and dictation. Also you can actually write your letters out a la Sony Clie days lol. Pretty much a jack of all trades but does not do one particularly well, but gets the job done. The Dragon software is pretty spot on for me.
Gingerbread keyboard from the market. U can adjust size.
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Gingerbread keyboard from the market. U can adjust size.
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Agreed! i am so used to speeding through my texts now that i pretty much only use the gingerbread kb mainly because of the multi touch but i have grown very fond of thumb keyboard
swype all the way !
just updated my sensation to sense 4.0. am not really a big fan of the new keyboard with the directional arrows below. i don't really see an option to remove the arrows or an arrow-less version and i make too many mistakes with the default ICS keyboard. can anyone recommend me a good keyboard to use?
thanks!
Smart Keyboard Pro. Hands down the best keyboard I've ever used. That, or the Swype beta.
Also interested in this.
I got a little fed up with swype typos. seemed like it didn't take grammar into account.
I'm a very fast, but sloppy typist.
Ultimate death of me: V or B instead of the spacebar, rendering typo correction useless and throwing it off.
Having some fun with swiftkey x though. I'll take a look at smart kb pro.
I like thumbs keyboard
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Swift Key hands down. Though I haven't used it again after trying Sense 4.0 keyboard, this one is so smooth and overall great
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littleasian said:
just updated my sensation to sense 4.0. am not really a big fan of the new keyboard with the directional arrows below. i don't really see an option to remove the arrows or an arrow-less version and i make too many mistakes with the default ICS keyboard. can anyone recommend me a good keyboard to use?
thanks!
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Swiftkey X - Been my keyboard of choice since my Desire days.
it quickly learns keyboard and language usage and prompts the next most likely word. Saves ages when typing "Just got to the station see you soon XXX" type stuff. All I type is Just and the rest is prompted for me (with a few options and variations)
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I like thumbs keyboard
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Gave thanks.
Best damn thing I've ever typed with. Really helps out.
My issue with Swiftkey X was that I'm just too sloppy.
Thumb Keyboard helps that from what I gather. Bigger keys = less typos = more accurate predictions.
How the hell have I not been using this before. Wtf.
Swiftkey is nice unless you have to type in different languages ! (In my case it's Spanish, Catalan and English :S). If your case is like mine go after SmartKeyboard, has a button to switch between dictionaries easily and you can personalize the space bar to make it way bigger (my main problem was clicking , or . instead of space ALL the time U_U)
Luck there
@xhighalert I know what you mean. That's how I felt when I started using it back in December.
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MuertoKo said:
Swiftkey is nice unless you have to type in different languages ! (In my case it's Spanish, Catalan and English :S). If your case is like mine go after SmartKeyboard, has a button to switch between dictionaries easily and you can personalize the space bar to make it way bigger (my main problem was clicking , or . instead of space ALL the time U_U)
Luck there
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Same here - on pretty much every keyboard for some reason I'd always hit CVBN instead of space. Split Portrait Compact mode on Thumb Keyboard has pretty much solved that issue.
i tried thumb keyboard, looks really good but for some reason i'm still getting the damn arrow keys below it. this is on the default htc keyboard. does anybody know how to get rid of them?
littleasian said:
i tried thumb keyboard, looks really good but for some reason i'm still getting the damn arrow keys below it. this is on the default htc keyboard. does anybody know how to get rid of them?
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You can hide the arrow keys.
Go to the keyboard setting screens.
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