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[Doseone]

Don't get me wrong I like the blackberry and I love the push email, the only problem is that the biggest advantage that blackberry had over other phones, the push email, has now become their biggest disadvantage.

When they had their network outage last year it highlighted that if the blackberry servers go down your lose all your access to email. Years ago when data plans were expensive you didn't want your phone checking for emails every few minutes coz it would cost you so it was great that the blackberry servers would pick up your email and push it to your phone , these days who cares data is cheap so wave goodbye to the blackberrys biggest advantage.

I am afraid that once the kiddies get bored of blackberrys and move onto the next thing unless blackberry pull off a miracle of Steve Jobs saving apple at the last minute proportions they will go down the drain, probably closely followed by nokia.

I am getting much better with these touch screen keyboards a few months ago I couldn't have typed all that without a real keyboard.

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You've done well to type all that from a touch screen phone. It's the one thing I find clunky on my tab - particularly trying to place the cursor in the middle of some text by touching the screen. I can rarely get it in the right place.

I still actually use a dumb phone, a Nokia 6303ci. I'm not a luddite by any means and actually really like my tech, but I don't want or need constant access to my email and I have my tab for all the other stuff, apps and so on. One of the reasons I went for the Galaxy Tab 8.9 is it's superior portability if I need access on the go to that sort of thing - albeit I need a hotspot. The Nokia is a brilliant phone - battery charge lasts for ever, it's bombproof, never lets me down, call quality is excellent and it's ok for texting. It's a shame to see them slipping away.

 

[phil_hg_uk]

You've done well to type all that from a touch screen phone. It's the one thing I find clunky on my tab - particularly trying to place the cursor in the middle of some text by touching the screen. I can rarely get it in the right place.

I still actually use a dumb phone, a Nokia 6303ci. I'm not a luddite by any means and actually really like my tech, but I don't want or need constant access to my email and I have my tab for all the other stuff, apps and so on. One of the reasons I went for the Galaxy Tab 8.9 is it's superior portability if I need access on the go to that sort of thing - albeit I need a hotspot. The Nokia is a brilliant phone - battery charge lasts for ever, it's bombproof, never lets me down, call quality is excellent and it's ok for texting. It's a shame to see them slipping away.

I am afraid I had to get the Galaxy S3 I just couldn't help myself, it is a fantastic phone with a massive screen and the battery easily lasts the day out, but it is not too big that it won't fit in your pocket. T-Mobile are also doing a really good deal on the full month tariff.

I only bought my sim free HTC Desire S about 3 or 4 months before I got the S3 but once I had done my homework on the S3 I had to have one, so I sold on the HTC.

I am using SwiftKey 3 keyboard on this and on the tablet it makes typing much much quicker.

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[Doseone]

I've just downloaded the Anysoft keyboard which I'm typing on now. It's an improvement and has arrow keys to move the cursor so I'm happy.......except for the fact that a lot of its functionality doesn't work when I'm typing on CC! It works everywhere else, must be something to do with the forum software and/or the Android browser I guess. I also get terrible lag when I'm typing on CC with my tab, but that has always been the case no matter which keyboard I use, again probably down to Android browser.

 

[phil_hg_uk]

I've just downloaded the Anysoft keyboard which I'm typing on now. It's an improvement and has arrow keys to move the cursor so I'm happy.......except for the fact that a lot of its functionality doesn't work when I'm typing on CC! It works everywhere else, must be something to do with the forum software I guess. I also get terrible lag when I'm typing on CC with my tab, but that has always been the case no matter which keyboard I use.

I mainly use Tapatalk when I am on forums now, you dont get acess to all the smileys but it is just much easier. Have you tried Swiftkey ?

 

[Doseone]

I mainly use Tapatalk when I am on forums now, you dont get acess to all the smileys but it is just much easier. Have you tried Swiftkey ?

No, I might have a go with the free month trial, but tbh I was a bit put off by some of the reviews. There were a lot of reviews saying there was a problem that when you backspace it inserts random characters!! Are there cursor keys with Swiftkey?

 

[phil_hg_uk]

No, I might have a go with the free month trial, but tbh I was a bit put off by some of the reviews. There were a lot of reviews saying there was a problem that when you backspace it inserts random characters!! Are there cursor keys with Swiftkey?

No cursor keys but you dont need them if you want to got a place in a sentence you just use you finger to put the cursor where you want it.

I must admit I have never come across it putting random characters in anything and I was a beta tester for Swiftkey 3.

I think people maybe having problems unrelated to Swiftkey and assuming it is Swiftkey that is causing it. For instance on some browsers CC is a pain the text in the reply box just wont behave which is why I now use Taptalk and I never get those problems, also a lot of the things you can do that annoy some people such as adding a space after a word etc can be taken out in the settings. Dont forget you can get a tabet version of Swiftkey 3 and what I like is you can make the keys taller or wider for chubby fingers

 

[Leedsbusdriver]

Touchpal is also a good android keyboard with the bonus being it's free.It's a slider type keyboard which when you get the hang of it you wonder why people use touch type keyboards.