Killing the 3.5mm Jack: How Simple Is Changing into Needlessly Complicated

Re:Killing the 3.5mm Jack: How Simple Is Changing into Needl... by TylerE on Monday June 13, 2016 @02:45PM (#11896251)

I had a Moto droid. It has a physical keyboard. It was fking terrible. Keys are so small as to be nearly unuseable. The onscreen keyboard was so much better... error rate was about the same but correction made it much better in practice.

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Re:Killing the 3.5mm Jack: How Simple Is Changing into Needl... by andrewstuart2 on Monday June 13, 2016 @03:00PM (#11896368)

I had quite the opposite experience, actually. Yeah, the keys were small and took some getting used to. I'd imagine if my fingers were bigger it may have become a problem. I felt lightning fast on that thing, though, and rarely needed to correct anything, which really added to my effective typing speed.

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Re:Killing the 3.5mm Jack: How Simple Is Changing into Needl... by smt88 on Monday June 13, 2016 @04:16PM (#11897205)

I had a Droid as well as various BlackBerry products, including the Bold.

I found the Bold keyboard to be fantastic. I could type 60 wpm without looking at the phone.

I found the Droid keyboard to be terrible and unusable.

Not all keyboards are the same, but I do know the best-possible keyboard experience can be far better than the Droid (or any iPhone I've used).

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Re:Killing the 3.5mm Jack: How Simple Is Changing into Needl... by Osiris on Monday June 13, 2016 @03:28PM (#11896660)

I had a T-mobile G2 and I loved the keyboard on it. I used to type entire emails on that without a problem but with my touchscreen phones, it's an exercise in frustration. The swype-style is nice, but it still gets things wrong that I have to correct all the time. I'd buy the Priv if it wasn't $400 and exclusive to AT&T.

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