Anyone enjoy this phone and have normal to large hands? My hands are normal for a male, and typing on a small phone like this is impossible. I wouldn’t be opposed to it, but it’s just so hard to type on and I do a ton of that at work all day long. I could probably relearn it coming from my Plus, but it’s a struggle.
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iPhone SE (2016) Anyone get their new SE yet?
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Why I upgraded from an 11 to an SE 2020 - after coming from an 11 pro ;)
Last time I posted about giving back an 11 pro and going to the 11 it met with many different reactions. Amongst other opinions, some said it was purchase regret, some that you get what you want and others understood. I acknowledge that the 11 pro has the best tech, and overall from a spec...
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Me. I’m a male with normal sized hands. I haven’t had any issues typing on the SE. I thought I would but I haven’t had any issues.
As much as I love it, there is no phone I'd type a ton all day long on; it's a phone. I'm happy to carry it all day long. If I have to type more than a line or two I wait until I get to my iPad or Laptop, which I don't carry all day long.
I find I can type pretty fast and accurately. However one thing I’ve noticed is the speech to text dictating gets it wrong frequently. Funny thing on android I make more mistakes typing but the dictation is spot on. iPhone it is opposite. I’m glad the KB works as well as it does or I’d be going nuts. Anything very lengthy can wait till I get to my laptop.
Aside from the whole ‘hand size‘ discussion, I don’t even hardly type, I use dictation for Siri for about 90% of my text/workflow. Now, Siri isn’t always accurate and I do have to semi-proofread before I post, but it’s so much quicker than typing and Siri has improved with deciphering with the fluency of dictation over the last three years. [And this is coming from somebody who uses Siri every single day for dictation of reports, email/any form of communication.]
It’s a crucial piece to my daily activity, and I think some major advancements with Siri will be here in the next year or so with machine learning/AI improvement with John Giannandrea acquired from Google.
As I mentioned above Siri makes a lot of mistakes for me when I dictate. What’s the trick? I’ve tried various distances from my face. Close better?, further away better? Still looking for that sweet spot. Funny thing when I used an iPhone 7 prior to getting the SE she was a lot more accurate. Not sure what’s changed but it’s just about even steven typing or dictation for me as far as speed since dictating causes lots of errors. An interesting observation is when I see an error dictating it sometimes fixes itself if I back out. Never did that before either. I am on the latest 13 beta but so was my 7. It’s my only complaint about the SE.
Siri is very straightforward to use. The majority of ignorant users on a site like this, bash Siri because they don’t have an understanding of how to manipulate it properly.
The key to Siri, is speak slowly and enunciate your words as clearly as possible. Siri isn’t perfect, she will misconstrue various words or use the word in place that has the same spelling, but different meaning.
Also, if you have issues with Siri, you can retrain your voice through the settings if necessary.
@Relentless Power, forgot to mention I have been learning to enunciate more slowly with Siri and it does seem to help but still quite a few typos. Thanks for the input, might try the retraining but I can also add that in all other aspects like requests to open or start something she is spot on. I think she has attitude😜
Ditto on depending on dictation. Due to a brain injury I’m relegated to typing with one hand and dictation is a big time saver.
Have you tried GBoard on iPhone? Recently there was a news about how dictation on Android is faster compared to Siri and Google has improved its keyboard so that speech-to-text happens on device instead of relying on internet connection which results in lower latency compared to Siri.
I tried it on my 7 a couple of years ago and it didn’t work very smoothly. Might be better by now. Gonna give it a try. Thanks