Ok, i assure you, the droid 3’s keys are not larger than my foldables keys.
And if you push them with your thumbs, then they are not better than a touch screen keyboard for typing speed. They are also more than likely prone to as many errors as a touchscreen keyboard. Muscle memory will play a big role in how well they work for the individual.
Yes, people dont like physical keyboards on phones, or else there would be a market for them, and you would not be complaining about not being able to find any modern phones with physical keyboards. Clearly, they dont satisfy a need that enough people out there have. I think you need to accept that you are in a minority of people who like phones with physical keyboards. Incidentally, a minority smaller than the market share of tablets.
Fair enough, tablet market share is around 2% when compared to mobile and desktop/laptop. pretty low, but high enough that they are still being manufactured and sold.
As for the irony, i have used a phone with a slide out keyboard. It was a samsung from a long time ago, im struggling to remember its name, but it looked a lot like this one:
Not even the same ballpark. Typing accuracy with the Droid 3 keyboard is comparable to desktop. Speed is less with only two fingers instead of ten, but its speed × accuracy is still vastly superior to that of a touchscreen keyboard.
Touchscreens have zero tactile feedback. It’s a completely flat panel. Touch typing is impossible. Gesture typing is abysmally inaccurate. Hunt-and-peck is abysmally slow.
Yes, I would probably have liked your old Samsung. Looks pretty similar to my Droid 3.
Touch typing (assuming your meaning typing without looking at the keyboard) is not impossible. Im doing it right now… muscle memory is a big part of it. Dont forget autocorrect and grammar and spelling suggestions do help as well.
Regardless. Who needs touch typing on a phone? You are typing slowly enough to follow exactly what you type without needing to check the text box above to see what you typed.
Let’s not pretend that touch typing on a keyboard for thumbs is the same as touch typing on a full-size keyboard. It’s waaaay closer to touchscreen typing, especially on my folding phone inner screen.
They may not have tactile feedback, but they do respond with a tiny vibration to show you did hit the key, which is more than enough to alert you if you missed one.
Look, i’m sorry you suck at typing on a touchscreen keyboard, but that doesn’t make you right automatically.
And are you just going to forget that you mentioned i have never used a slide out phone keyboard as a point against my argument. but actually i have and now you are just saying you would have liked the samsung one i showed you? Not conceeding anything there? No?
I did say touch typing on a thumb keyboard is slower. I also said it’s far faster than what I can do on a (normal non-folding no-physical-keyboard) phone.
If you can touch type on your foldable phone’s touchscreen keyboard, where you can’t feel the boundaries between the keys, then I’m impressed. I didn’t think that was possible.
Ok, i assure you, the droid 3’s keys are not larger than my foldables keys. And if you push them with your thumbs, then they are not better than a touch screen keyboard for typing speed. They are also more than likely prone to as many errors as a touchscreen keyboard. Muscle memory will play a big role in how well they work for the individual.
Yes, people dont like physical keyboards on phones, or else there would be a market for them, and you would not be complaining about not being able to find any modern phones with physical keyboards. Clearly, they dont satisfy a need that enough people out there have. I think you need to accept that you are in a minority of people who like phones with physical keyboards. Incidentally, a minority smaller than the market share of tablets.
Fair enough, tablet market share is around 2% when compared to mobile and desktop/laptop. pretty low, but high enough that they are still being manufactured and sold.
As for the irony, i have used a phone with a slide out keyboard. It was a samsung from a long time ago, im struggling to remember its name, but it looked a lot like this one:
So i am sticking to that point.
Not even the same ballpark. Typing accuracy with the Droid 3 keyboard is comparable to desktop. Speed is less with only two fingers instead of ten, but its speed × accuracy is still vastly superior to that of a touchscreen keyboard.
Touchscreens have zero tactile feedback. It’s a completely flat panel. Touch typing is impossible. Gesture typing is abysmally inaccurate. Hunt-and-peck is abysmally slow.
Yes, I would probably have liked your old Samsung. Looks pretty similar to my Droid 3.
Touch typing (assuming your meaning typing without looking at the keyboard) is not impossible. Im doing it right now… muscle memory is a big part of it. Dont forget autocorrect and grammar and spelling suggestions do help as well.
Regardless. Who needs touch typing on a phone? You are typing slowly enough to follow exactly what you type without needing to check the text box above to see what you typed.
Let’s not pretend that touch typing on a keyboard for thumbs is the same as touch typing on a full-size keyboard. It’s waaaay closer to touchscreen typing, especially on my folding phone inner screen.
They may not have tactile feedback, but they do respond with a tiny vibration to show you did hit the key, which is more than enough to alert you if you missed one.
Look, i’m sorry you suck at typing on a touchscreen keyboard, but that doesn’t make you right automatically.
And are you just going to forget that you mentioned i have never used a slide out phone keyboard as a point against my argument. but actually i have and now you are just saying you would have liked the samsung one i showed you? Not conceeding anything there? No?
@Mr_Dr_Oink
I did say touch typing on a thumb keyboard is slower. I also said it’s far faster than what I can do on a (normal non-folding no-physical-keyboard) phone.
If you can touch type on your foldable phone’s touchscreen keyboard, where you can’t feel the boundaries between the keys, then I’m impressed. I didn’t think that was possible.