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Have You Mastered the Keyboard?

lilnyc

lilnyc

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I have, almost!! :D

I was in the mood to write a looong email, and not one tap at a time. Arrgh. So I relaxed and started typing with both thumbs without THINKING about techniques or errors. Then wah-la. It was natural. Just like the videos promised, the corrections are quite accurate with few exceptions. Now I love it.

Does anyone else feel this way?
 
almost. sometimes i want to hit one of the lower keys, and i miss it by hitting the space bar, and that completely throws off the error correction tool. still, texting is a lot faster than it was on my razr.
 
from the start i just naturally typed with 2 thumbs without worrying about errors and it is pretty accurate.
 
Yeah I feel pretty comfortable using the keyboard with two thumbs. First time I used the iPhone in the Apple Store I started with two thumbs to see if it was as good as they promised. I truly think that it is. Only thing I have a problem with is tapping the space bar hard enough.

Now that I have my own iPhone I can almost looks up at the display instead of the keyboard area, at least for part of the time.

It is truly a marvelous device.
 
I'm getting to the point where I can type faster on it than on my blackberries and treos. Although it's easier for me to make an error on the iphone because of the lack of tactile feeback, but the word correction is pretty good most of the time.
 
I haven't mastered it, but that is not my iPhone's fault. I'm just an infrequent scribbler, It is easier for me than the plastic keyboards.
 
I'm much faster on it than I was with my Treo, but I really find myself wishing for some alternative to the "magnifying glass" for cursor placement and editing. Being able to highlight a block of text would be nice as well. Overall I love it and just hope for incremental improvement from Apple.
 
pretty much.

The only "problem" is typing in passwords or URLs.

I have to go a little more slowly to make sure I get it exactly right, especially when you can't see the letters you typed.
 
thomasfxlt said:
I'm much faster on it than I was with my Treo, but I really find myself wishing for some alternative to the "magnifying glass" for cursor placement and editing. Being able to highlight a block of text would be nice as well. Overall I love it and just hope for incremental improvement from Apple.
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Yeah isn't it annoying when you want to type in a new web address and the current one is like a mile long and you can't highlight it to erase it all in one go? I'm hoping I'm missing something there and there's an easier way to type in a new web address.
 
Reading some early reviews, I was convinced it would take me months to get used to the iPhone keyboard.

First day I felt I had already mastered it.

Very easy, imo
 
damado said:
Yeah isn't it annoying when you want to type in a new web address and the current one is like a mile long and you can't highlight it to erase it all in one go? I'm hoping I'm missing something there and there's an easier way to type in a new web address.
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you are missing something. click the circle with an x in it at the end of the address bar and it will clear the entire contents so you can type a new address.
 
damado said:
Yeah isn't it annoying when you want to type in a new web address and the current one is like a mile long and you can't highlight it to erase it all in one go? I'm hoping I'm missing something there and there's an easier way to type in a new web address.
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That's what the X is for in the address bar at the far right. It erases the current URL.
 
You can just start typing and it overwrites the web address anyway, at least it does for me.

Like someone else previously stated, I used to hit the space bar a lot at first. Now I am aware of it, so I have compensated. Now I have no trouble typing, and I even know when to slow down for questionable words.

I can't say for sure if I am typing faster than on my treos, but it feels close.
 
I am loving the keyboard. I do not miss tactile feel like I thou I would. I think I had two fingers down in a few hours. I wish though that mail would go into landscape to make typing easier...:)
 
lilnyc said:
I have, almost!! :D

I was in the mood to write a looong email, and not one tap at a time. Arrgh. So I relaxed and started typing with both thumbs without THINKING about techniques or errors. Then wah-la. It was natural. Just like the videos promised, the corrections are quite accurate with few exceptions. Now I love it.

Does anyone else feel this way?
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I'm right at home on the iPhone keyboard. I think my transition might have been a little easier since I was already used to "trusting" the intelligence of my previous phone's T9 text input (With T9 43556 would type "hello" and you scrolled through other suggested words with the zero key.) but the iPhone's system is far more intelligent and the full keyboard really speeds things up.
I have large hands/long fingers and REALLY would like to rotate the phone to type. Thumb typing in portrait mode just doesn't give me a good grip on the phone.
 
lilnyc said:
I have, almost!! :D

I was in the mood to write a looong email, and not one tap at a time. Arrgh. So I relaxed and started typing with both thumbs without THINKING about techniques or errors. Then wah-la. It was natural. Just like the videos promised, the corrections are quite accurate with few exceptions. Now I love it.

Does anyone else feel this way?
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Exact same thing happened to me. My husband says I type with the 'force'. If you just let go and trust it, it kicks a**!
 
Sobe said:
pretty much.

The only "problem" is typing in passwords or URLs.

I have to go a little more slowly to make sure I get it exactly right, especially when you can't see the letters you typed.
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A great trick is to put your finger on the keyboard and don't lift it until the letter you want is displayed large. Then lift your finger. Voila, accuracy.
 
I am pretty good on it now. For a few days I only used a single finger, and even so, I was still decently fast. Now, though, I use both thumbs, and I fly on it. I still make quite a few errors that the auto-correct cannot fix, though, so I do find myself going back and re-entering an entire word.

I love the keyboard. I can type fast on it, and it disappears when not needed.
 
i just hate the predictive input crap. i keep closing the dumb bubbles that pop up with certain words to no avail. i can't get it to like, understand that I really mean this particular word instead of something else that I wouldn't ever imagine using..some I've never heard of..
 
janey said:
i just hate the predictive input crap. i keep closing the dumb bubbles that pop up with certain words to no avail. i can't get it to like, understand that I really mean this particular word instead of something else that I wouldn't ever imagine using..some I've never heard of..
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According to the tutorial video on the Apple site, it adds different words to the dictionary if you type them twice.
 
PowerFullMac said:
According to the tutorial video on the Apple site, it adds different words to the dictionary if you type them twice.
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someone else told me to do this, and it does not work for me. or at least, for some words it does, but for the capitalization of others it doesn't (i say "lol" a lot, but the iPhone always autocorrects it to "LOL", among other acronyms, and i HATE that).
 
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