Blackberry Keyone Review: Part Productivity, Part Nostalgia

Re:Blackberry Keyone Review: Part Productivity, Part Nostalgia by Semaphor on Friday May 05, 2017 @11:10AM (#14273981)

I loved keyboards. My last Nokia was the E71/2 (blackberry format) and my first Android the HTC Desire Z (I think Telekom G2 in the US), a fold out keyboard phone.

Why? Because I could perfectly type without looking. But then Swype came around. While swipe-typing had its problems, in the beginning, it quickly matured. Suddenly I could type faster and more correctly without looking at the screen than I ever could with a physical keyboard.

So while I sometimes wished for something like the KeyOne, I'm now very happy with only a touchscreen.

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Re:Blackberry Keyone Review: Part Productivity, Part Nostalgia by ams6110 on Friday May 05, 2017 @09:53PM (#14278244)

Swipe typing for me has gotten markedly worse this year. I think it's gotten too smart about trying to predict.

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Re:Blackberry Keyone Review: Part Productivity, Part Nostalgia by Semaphor on Sunday May 07, 2017 @04:52AM (#14284516)

I used to use Swiftkey which was amazing. But the more it "learned", the worse the predictions would become (possibly it can't handle me switching between English and German a lot). I replaced it with the google keyboard for now, it's worse than SK at it's best but better on average. If only someone would make a swipe keyboard without any weird emoticon features and instead only some ASCII smileys and text…

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