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Texting on iphones?

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vjfaris

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I'm looking at getting an iphone but I've heard they're really hard to text on (and when I had a play with one today, I must admit I kept hitting the wrong keys).

Does it get any easier to text or is it always going to be slower than on a normal phone?

How does the predictive text messaging work? The phone I was playing with today gave suggestions only when I spelt the word wrong - surely there is a way of getting it to suggest words before you get to the end of typing that word out in full?

They look like amazing phones but I'm only going to get one if I get get the texting sorted.

Cheers.
 
Hard? No. Different? Yes.

You get used to it rather quickly.

There is no predictive text, only auto-correct.
 
I haveyo agree with the above poster it is not so much hard as it is different once you learn to use qwerty it can be rather simple typing with your thumbs.

That message took less then 25 seconds to type out on my iPhone.

I strongly recommend getting an iPhone way more to it then a reguslr flip phone.
 
The phone gets real easy to text with. You learn to use the keyboard very quickly. This phone is amazing. There are so many other things this phone can do that makes the iphone the best out there.:apple:
 
just like everyone else has said, it is really easy once you get used to it. Get an iPhone, if you dont like it you have 14 days to return it, but I bet you 100 bucks you will love it!
 
I went from a BB Curve to an iPhone and was worried about this, as well.
It's all good!
The auto-correct is 99% right when I mistype, and the little spotlight-magnify thing is great for going back and correcting.
It took me all of 2 days to get used to it.


Joe
 
Cheers

Thanks everyone - that looks like an overwhelmingly strong 'yes' for texting being ok!
 
Acronym said:
I haveyo agree with the above poster it is not so much hard as it is different once you learn to use qwerty it can be rather simple typing with your thumbs.

That message took less then 25 seconds to type out on my iPhone.

I strongly recommend getting an iPhone way more to it then a reguslr flip phone.
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Was this supposed to be sarcastic? :confused: If so, I like it. :D
 
well this is a forum of basically all iPhone owners, but so what? the OP is about to become an iPhone owner so he should hear what people like him think about it, hear what people who use the phone on a regular basis think about it.

what would be the point in going to the crackberry forums and asking this? of course they would trash it, they don't use it enough and they don't own it, don't you think you'd be asking the wrong people?
 
I disagree. With mid to large fingers i still find the keyboard difficult to use (after 30 days of light sms use) without a lot of mistakes and the resultant corrections when using the keyboard in standard format. I am MUCH better with te keyboard in landscape mode but have yet to jailbrake my phone so there are no Native Apps that I know of that allow Landscape txting...
 
Texting on the iPhone is definitely different from using other phones.
I must say that I had a hard time using the iPhone for sending SMS, until Apple enabled the auto-correction to be switched off.
What's missing now is lanscape keypad for SMS & e-mail w/o jailbreaking the phone. (For e-mails, you can get EasyWriter as a workaround app)
 
I understand your concern but after a day or two, it's just as easy as any other phone. I actually like texting with the iPhone and text much more than I used to with my LG.
 
notintheleast said:
Was this supposed to be sarcastic? :confused: If so, I like it. :D
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well... no it actualy probably took less then 25 seconds but as you can clearly see in my post the spelling errors are abundant.

but in general it is quite easy to type on the iphone and if yo ucan get into a groove then you can type fairly fast.
 
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