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what keyboards are u guys using?

Does everyone get the thing saying &amp on their & key with their droidx keyboard? That's the only thingi don't like about it
 
I like the stock keyboard and have tried all the ones you guys have mentioned here, but I am still having one major problem with all of them. I guess I have fat thumbs or something because I tend to hit the "." key rather than the spacebar key. Any keyboards have a fatter spacebar or allow me to move the "." key that is directly to the right of the spacebar key?
 
nevermind. just downloaded the black and red version and it's fine. i like it alot. they also have it in black with blue or green.
 
I'm torn between Droid X and Stock. I've used Shapewriter, which was cool and I tried Swype but couldn't get it to do any Swyping. I want one where the space bar is bigger because I hit the period button constantly when trying to use the spacebar.

jongordo8 said:
I like the stock keyboard and have tried all the ones you guys have mentioned here, but I am still having one major problem with all of them. I guess I have fat thumbs or something because I tend to hit the "." key rather than the spacebar key. Any keyboards have a fatter spacebar or allow me to move the "." key that is directly to the right of the spacebar key?
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Just noticed this after I posted. Glad I'm not alone!
 
Ok, I think I finally have found the best, at least for me. I was a hardcore blackberry user, and this is my first non-blackberry, first touch screen, and first android phone.

I've tried Stock, Shapewriter, Swiftkey, and SlideIT. Hands down, no competition, SlideIT is the winner.

I was actually doing just fine on Stock, I think the predictive suggestions are awfully good, but I wanted to play around. Shapewriter never seemed easy to me, and Swiftkey was not nearly the miracle some had written about, at least for me. I was still much faster on Stock. Then I tried SlideIT and I never switch.

The swiping is very fast. You have to be a little more accurate than Shapewriter, but I find it easier to be accurate. It gives great suggestions, and best of all, the speech to text is amazing. Not only does it HAVE speech to text (shapewriter does not), but it gives 6 possible suggestions, so any tricky word combos almost always come out correct.

Additionally, it has a switch to go from slide to abc mode for passwords or just plain typing.

SO easy. It does cost money, but for me it was WELL worth it.

Loving it and my evo, and thanks to all of you that have helped my get up to speed.
 
meganoobie said:
Ok, I think I finally have found the best, at least for me. I was a hardcore blackberry user, and this is my first non-blackberry, first touch screen, and first android phone.

I've tried Stock, Shapewriter, Swiftkey, and SlideIT. Hands down, no competition, SlideIT is the winner.

I was actually doing just fine on Stock, I think the predictive suggestions are awfully good, but I wanted to play around. Shapewriter never seemed easy to me, and Swiftkey was not nearly the miracle some had written about, at least for me. I was still much faster on Stock. Then I tried SlideIT and I never switch.

The swiping is very fast. You have to be a little more accurate than Shapewriter, but I find it easier to be accurate. It gives great suggestions, and best of all, the speech to text is amazing. Not only does it HAVE speech to text (shapewriter does not), but it gives 6 possible suggestions, so any tricky word combos almost always come out correct.

Additionally, it has a switch to go from slide to abc mode for passwords or just plain typing SlideIT.

SO easy. It does cost money, but for me it was WELL worth it.

Loving it and my evo, and thanks to all of you that have helped my get up to speed.
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Yup, just downloaded SlideIT myself n I love it! Well worth the money!
 
I use: SwiftKey, Swype, and SlideIt. All three I could have as the only keyboards and all three are unique but right now SlideIt has the most appeal, accuracy, and features.
 
Stock for me. I like having the arrow keys and the key that let's me close the keyboard. I haven't found any good keyboards with both of these keys.
 
CoolBreeze said:
Stock for me. I like having the arrow keys and the key that let's me close the keyboard. I haven't found any good keyboards with both of these keys.
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On SlideIT, the back soft key reduces the keyboard, and the 4th special character screen has arrows. Not as good as the stock arrow solution, but it works.
 
I always close the keyboard using the Back button, so having a dedicated button on the keyboard doesn't matter to me. And Swype *does* have arrow keys -- swipe from the Swype key to the Sym key, and you've got a whole lot of extra buttons :)
 
Has anyone been able to install the Swype beta on more than one phone? For example, I signed up and installed it on my Evo, but can I download the beta installer again and use it on a MyTouch?
 
jrstinkfish said:
Has anyone been able to install the Swype beta on more than one phone? For example, I signed up and installed it on my Evo, but can I download the beta installer again and use it on a MyTouch?
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To install on multiple devices, go to xda forums and search for the Swype beta. This will allow you to install on as many devices as you wish.
 
Swype. It's pretty much objectively better than any touch-based keyboard, because once you get started on pretty much any decent-sized word, you can be inaccurate as HELL, super-fast, and it will still figure it out.

But that strength really only comes into play with bigger words. If you're the type that uses shortcuts/text speak/AOL speak or you're just monosyllabic or something, then I suppose a touch keyboard would work better.


frithne said:
I see how many of you are loving swype..is not in the market...where do you get it?
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Look one post above yours.
 
IMDANDROID said:
Currently using Droid Does - Red Themed Swype; Also Droid X which is also good. Only using the Swype now for about 24 hrs, hard for me to get used to texting this way.

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I really like this keyboard, where can I get this?
 
Been using Swype for a while but just loaded Swiftkey. The prediction works pretty well. Just wish it had some alternate skins. The default washed out look is unappealing to me. Some of the smaller symbols are hard for me to see without my glasses. I'll keep using it for a while.
 
I just tried SwiftKey, and quickly uninstalled it. It was frustrating to use, will capitalize the letter when ever you hit the back key. I'm content with Swype, BetterKeyboard as well as the stock.
 
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