I have just recently bought Thumb keyboard when trying to find a good split keyboard for the Tab Plus and I do have say say it is VERY nice.
The keyboard split is much easier on the thumbs for typing in Landscape mode. In between the two keypads are more keys and you also hold down a key and a numeric pad comes on top of the keyboard and goes away when you let it go. If some people have hands that are on the smaller side (like me) I highly recommend this keyboard it's so much more comfortable than the ones that come stock.
I will also note I did try SwiftKey Tablet X and I didn't like it as much. The landscape keys were slightly smaller and the portrait mode for had REALLY small keys and it only had 3 themes to play with.
Thumb Keyboard comes with 29 themes and the ability to adjust the size of the keyboard all on it's own (default being 100% and can go all the way to 100%) along with different layouts and optimized layouts for different tablet sizes (eg 7 inch, another 7 inch, 10.1 inch) and you can customize it to your liking.
My only gripe is the portrait mode keyboard is a little odd but not enough for me to completely dislike if anything it's easier to use.
In the end it is $2.29, but to me it was well worth it and should be given a try.
And I would put pictures of it up but I can't seem to screen cap the keyboard... :'(
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Go to the 4th post to see pictures! or click here
Screenshot ER for screen shots of the keyboard.
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Ah thank you! Now I can put up some pictures!
1. This is the landscape keyboard:
2. This is the landscape while holding the numeric button (which still can just be pressed) to bring up other functions and quick numeric pad:
3. This is the portrait mode. The pads are a little odd but it works for me. I could probably change it just haven't messed with it enough yet:
You can actually get a different portait layout so it doesn't look like that. I use this for my soft keyboard on my tablet as well and it's my favorite. It would get even better if they were to put a see-thru/transparency control. My peeve with soft keyboards is they usually take up so much screen space you can't see what you're typing. Making the keys transparent to a degree solves that.
I agree about being able to see through the keyboard. That would be an interesting feature to have and decently useful too.
And thanks for letting me know that I can change the portrait mode keyboard layout, but I might even end up change it back since I'm getting used to it.
tnx for sharing this out , well thumb keyboard has been out for like one year ! everybody knows its the best keyboard on the market specially for tabs , i have been using it with my Gtab7,Gtab7+ and the Gtab10.1, works the best for me from all.
Well still, I'm completely new to Android so this was a good find to me and needed to tell the world about it... Or at least people who actually care about Android...
Well I am trying it out as we speak. So far so good. Gonna take some getting used to though. Just have to play with the settings and what not. Nice on my 7+....
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I'm trying to find a large screen keyboard that I can use with my fingers instead of the stylus. Can anyone recommend a good one to use.. any freeware or otherwise.
Thanks
I like thumbkeys (or bigkeys) or something like that. It changed name.
Not free, but for me, nicely skinnable, i wrote a skinner for it and made a couple of thumb friendly layouts.
Many similar, but I like this for the effort.
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Spb Full Screen Keyboard - it's just been updated to version 3 with portrait (real qwerty, not offset like above) and landscape modes, WM2K3/5 support and a number of other features like spelling correction/learning.
Thanks for that, but I couldn't find thumbkeys or bigkeys on google.
I did come across Tengo Thumb.. I'm downloading it now, hopefully it's good.
If you have a link to your app that would be great.
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Spb Full Screen Keyboard - it's just been updated to version 3 with portrait (real qwerty, not offset like above) and landscape modes, WM2K3/5 support and a number of other features like spelling correction/learning.
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Just what I'm after... Thank you!!
Sorry, touch keyboard:
http://www.orthancsoftware.com/TKeyboard.htm
mtbsoft: my keyboard layout is not by accident, it's by design.
Print it out and try typing with it using one thumb.
I find it better (on a smaller screen like the Magician) then the standard QWERTY. I also use a fullscreen landscape keyboard using regular qwerty, for two thumbs.
I also did a modified fitaly and some others for symbols, calculator layout for numbers etc. But I use this one daily.
(SPB's fullscreen portrait)
I'm sure most keyboard apps are fully skinnable now though.
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Sorry, touch keyboard:
http://www.orthancsoftware.com/TKeyboard.htm
mtbsoft: my keyboard layout is not by accident, it's by design.
Print it out and try typing with it using one thumb.
I find it better (on a smaller screen like the Magician) then the standard QWERTY. I also use a fullscreen landscape keyboard using regular qwerty, for two thumbs.
I also did a modified fitaly and some others for symbols, calculator layout for numbers etc. But I use this one daily.
(SPB's fullscreen portrait)
I'm sure most keyboard apps are fully skinnable now though.
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thanks ，i will try
I currently have the MDA Vario 2 (or Hermes) which has a full slide out keyboard. I'd love to get a slimmer phone with all the features the polaris has, but not convinced that I could type fast on the on-screen keyboard. Is it easy to use it? Can you type out a lot of text without hitting wrong buttons etc? Can you use 2 thumbs? Thanks.
I would suggest to get yourself one of the better SIP's like Cootek's TouchPal or the PCM soft keyboard.
Personally I recommend the TouchPal as I have it on my Kaiser and I rarely find myself using the built-in slide out keyboard.
Would this work in the polaris? Cause then I definitely wouldn't want the keybaord and the thickness that comes with it.
Ofcourse that will work on the Polaris. It's WM6, so those SIPs will work. I think the Polaris also comes with an improved HTC keyboard which should type a bit better.
PocketCM Keyboard is a nice one as well which will work for sure on the Polaris.
As for typing on a keyboard, I never used anything else. Well, I did give a slide out keyboard a few tries, but it was almost just as awkward as the screen keyboard. With the only difference you get the key feedback from a slide out keyboard.
Are there any SIPs yet with a very small vibrate feedback while typing? Anyways, that would be nice .
I never had a problem with onscreen typing, and looking at the size of the Polaris typing with two thumbs shouldn't be a problem either. Especially when switching to landscape view.
Actually TouchPal should work better on the Polaris than on the Kaiser.
This is so because for certain "Gestures" you have to move your finger to the extreme right or left of the screen at times. The Polaris like the Touch has a flush fitted screen (no raised borders) so it is easy to make those gestures. On the Kaiser the raised screen borders sometimes obstruct your finger movement making this a bit frustrating.
My comment comes from my experience of using the TouchPal on both the Kaiser and the HTC Touch.
Thanks for the info
I tried out a friends Touch yesterday. I like the flush screen which is key to using the gestures and even full use of the keyboards lower register of letters, but in addition it has a different feel to it, almost like it feels harder and more glass like than most other PDA screens. It is still not as responsive (for finger taps) as the iPhone, but it is much better than any PDA phone I have tried. Not worlds better mind you, but for how often I need to use an on screen keyboard, it will do.
As I said, I've tried touchpal and I'm disappointed.
They've promised a lot for the new release and offered only little (actually so they did for previous versions).
Currently I'm using a better keyboard, I've attached the CAB so you can try it.
It runs smooth, has some kind of fast typing system, that I've never seen to other products, all in one, it does a hell of a job. Enjoy!
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Personally I recommend the TouchPal as I have it on my Kaiser and I rarely find myself using the built-in slide out keyboard.
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Hi everyone!
I stopped using the dodgy default keyboard and switched to the HTC keyboard. Wow, it's a whole new phone now! One question though, I use IM a lot (ebuddy, msntalk and msndroid) and everytime I go to the landscape keyboard, it fills up the whole screen so I cannot see what someone has just said while I'm typing. Is there anyway to stop the landscape keyboard from filling up the whole screen (similar to the iPhone)?
Thanks!
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Hi everyone!
I stopped using the dodgy default keyboard and switched to the HTC keyboard. Wow, it's a whole new phone now! One question though, I use IM a lot (ebuddy, msntalk and msndroid) and everytime I go to the landscape keyboard, it fills up the whole screen so I cannot see what someone has just said while I'm typing. Is there anyway to stop the landscape keyboard from filling up the whole screen (similar to the iPhone)?
Thanks!
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Use Better keyboard with custom skins keyboard sizes its accurate and fast and doesn't use the whole screen cost as little a couple of dollars with load of additional skins to install too for free.
Doesn't quite work. When I go into landscape mode on ebuddy the keyboard and textbox still cover the whole screen. Is there a setting to remove the textbox so I can see what is going on in the app?
I need something like this:
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Herr Noobien said:
Hi everyone!
I stopped using the dodgy default keyboard and switched to the HTC keyboard. Wow, it's a whole new phone now! One question though, I use IM a lot (ebuddy, msntalk and msndroid) and everytime I go to the landscape keyboard, it fills up the whole screen so I cannot see what someone has just said while I'm typing. Is there anyway to stop the landscape keyboard from filling up the whole screen (similar to the iPhone)?
Thanks!
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If you use htc_ime by jonasl then you can go into Setting -> User interface -> No landscape fullscreen
Just check that box and you will get what you want
I use v27 of jonasl htc_ime_hires
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If you use htc_ime by jonasl then you can go into Setting -> User interface -> No landscape fullscreen
Just check that box and you will get what you want
I use v27 of jonasl htc_ime_hires
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Perfect!
Thank you so much mate
wow didn't know about this. thanks.
I just figured it out. Despite the fact that i can't stand Apple and iTunes and the ios feel... the gtab sucks more. Why? Because my thumbs aren't 6 inches long.
Thumb keyboard! Worth every penny...
At least on an android tab you can change the keyboard. +1 for thumb keyboard by the way. Swiftkey x for tablets also has a split keyboard, and great prediction.
iPad owners have been stuck without a thumb keyboard for 2 years iOS 5 will bring their first and only alternative.
heinrich said:
I just figured it out. Despite the fact that i can't stand Apple and iTunes and the ios feel... the gtab sucks more. Why? Because my thumbs aren't 6 inches long.
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Get thump keyboard. Here is what it looks like on your tablet.
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I've used thumb keyboard on the gtab, and the phone version of swiftkeyX. I would bet that SwiftKey has the best word prediction/correction at the moment, but I haven't tried the tablet version.
Yeah, split keyboards are the only way to go with a screen this size. As mentioned before, at least with Android you have that option. Swype is no better by the way. The motions are just too big.
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Is thumb keyword better than SwiftKey X?
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Swiftkey doesn't size properly unless you're running it on HC. I had the free version from Amazon and never tried it, since I'm on Calk/Clem, and changing keyboards is a pain. I flashed HC, and tried it out, and it was beautiful. I really enjoyed it. Of ourse, at that time, I hadn't tired thumb keyboard. It splits the keyboard very nicely in HC, and the number pad in the middle is REALLy convenient. What it doesn't have, that thumb keyboard does are the extra keys next to the keypad.
So...I went back to Calk/Clem and installed Swiftkey, but it didn't rexise properly. Th espacebar was no longer split, so while you could type properly, you still needed 8 inch thumbs to hit the space bar. The keypad also dissapears on froyo roms...so, it basically makes this beautiful keyboard crippled in Froyo.
However, wanting a split keyboard back, I decided to purchase thumb keyboard, and what you see in the image above is exactly how it appears on a froyo rom. I haven't flashed HC to try it out there, so I can't give an opinion of Thumb on a HC rom.
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Swiftkey doesn't size properly unless you're running it on HC. I had the free version from Amazon and never tried it, since I'm on Calk/Clem, and changing keyboards is a pain. I flashed HC, and tried it out, and it was beautiful. I really enjoyed it. Of ourse, at that time, I hadn't tired thumb keyboard. It splits the keyboard very nicely in HC, and the number pad in the middle is REALLy convenient. What it doesn't have, that thumb keyboard does are the extra keys next to the keypad.
So...I went back to Calk/Clem and installed Swiftkey, but it didn't rexise properly. Th espacebar was no longer split, so while you could type properly, you still needed 8 inch thumbs to hit the space bar. The keypad also dissapears on froyo roms...so, it basically makes this beautiful keyboard crippled in Froyo.
However, wanting a split keyboard back, I decided to purchase thumb keyboard, and what you see in the image above is exactly how it appears on a froyo rom. I haven't flashed HC to try it out there, so I can't give an opinion of Thumb on a HC rom.
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I use thumb keyboard on Flashback 7.2 HC ROM and it works beautifully as well!
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It's not a real tactile keyboard but at least it's a new landscape keyboard-ish phone with new hardware. I'm disappointed it is a screen but if it's customizable then that would make a bit more sense instead of it just being a silly gimmick. I don't need a camera button on my keyboard, I'm not sure what's beside the 1 key or the left/right arrows, I don't need a symbol button where backspace should be and it looks like a whole row worth of space is wasted where there is just the speaker symbol.
It might be better than the landscape mode blackberry options though but there's no way I'll be able to type on it without looking as well as having a tactile and real physical keyboard. At first I thought it was a real keyboard and got so excited. I have come down off that high now.
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It's not a real tactile keyboard but at least it's a new landscape keyboard-ish phone with new hardware. I'm disappointed it is a screen but if it's customizable then that would make a bit more sense instead of it just being a silly gimmick. I don't need a camera button on my keyboard, I'm not sure what's beside the 1 key or the left/right arrows, I don't need a symbol button where backspace should be and it looks like a whole row worth of space is wasted where there is just the speaker symbol.
It might be better than the landscape mode blackberry options though but there's no way I'll be able to type on it without looking as well as having a tactile and real physical keyboard. At first I thought it was a real keyboard and got so excited. I have come down off that high now.
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Damn...it was a hoax. Just some sort of concept art someone was using to get their name out there for graphic design.
https://thetechreviewer.com/tech-news/samsung-galaxy-oxygen/
https://www.readyfx.com/
Not sure if this was posted previously, please share. Coming from the same folks that developed a keyboard mod for the Moto z phones
Sincerely hope the device is successful
I have a love for QWERTYs (look at my past phones). Spread the word please!
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https://www.readyfx.com/
Not sure if this was posted previously, please share. Coming from the same folks that developed a keyboard mod for the Moto z phones
Sincerely hope the device is successful
I have a love for QWERTYs (look at my past phones). Spread the word please!
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Just discovered this tonight via another website. Looks great.
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Damn...it was a hoax. Just some sort of concept art someone was using to get their name out there for graphic design.
https://thetechreviewer.com/tech-news/samsung-galaxy-oxygen/
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instead of adding that in a 2nd post, you should edit your OP to remove the unsourced clickbait fake pic and rumors... then replace it all with the actual *factual* new landscape slider, which *is real*, has *legit sources*, and details could be found since mid to late 2018, now directly at https://www.fxtec.com/pro1 or just delete this "fake news" thread entirely.