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Tried all the keyboards for dinc- I choose to use:

anyone else having problems with the swype keyboard freezing on dinc with the new beta? Old one worked great but this one doesn't work for me.
 
There's no way I could go back to standard after using a swipe keyboard. The swiping action is much better suited to phone-sized touchscreens than tap tap tapping.

Of the swipers I prefer SlideIT. It takes the best parts of Swype and ShapeWriter, combines them and adds a few tricks of it's own. It's the best swiper on the market in my opinion.
 
Hi, I know it's probably in this forums somewhere but this seems a good enough thread to ask.

Where can I get the Droid X keyboard apk? Thanks for any help with this.

I currently use Swype and it will be hard to take me away from it. I've gotten pretty good and accurate with it. I've also tried swift key but for some reason I can't vibe with it yet. Maybe I'll give it a few days longer but right now Swype will probably remain king of keyboard.
 
I'm gonna have to test out swiftkey after reading so much about it.

Am I the only one who actually types better in landscape with Swype?
 
after getting in on the second beta wave of swype, I've used it pretty much exclusively. While it's not perfect, i find it to be pretty handy. At first I wasn't crazy about it, i discovered that it's possible to swype, one-handed, using my thumb. It's not as accurate, but it's definitely more convenient than having to hold the phone in both hands and type with 2 thumbs. I also love that you can swype your passwords, and the whole word populates in the text field as ***.

I haven't tried anything else, besides htc stock keyboard. I'm not too keen on trying another keyboard after conditioning myself on swype =)
 
I have tried every keyboard that has come down the roadway for the Droid Incredible. I was able even to get the Droid X's multitouch keyboard running, so that includes:

Touch input (default HTC keyboard)
Inserty
Swiftkey Beta
Swipe (Beta)
Droid X Multitouch
and even
Palm Graffiti!

While I was able to go relatively quickly with Swype, it would occasionally lock up (temporarily) requiring me to sit there and wait for it to decide what was its next action. Also, it was positively maddeningly WRONG about many words I tried to use, and then would learn words I didn't need it to learn at all. The concept was impressive, but ultimately, I ended up turning it off as often as I turned it on.

Graffiti was a relic of my long Palm years and fun to play with, but it's a toy, not a productivity tool.

The Droid X keyboard was okay, but not sufficiently different from the default keyboard to justify the memory leaks it produced (insufficient memory warnings when I have plenty of memory). Removing non-standard software from my unrooted Dinc solved that problem.

But Swiftkey Beta is sometimes scary in how accurately it predicts what the next word will be, even if it doesn't always "fill in" the word I'm on correctly. It doesn't hang; it doesn't force its way into text input the way Swype sometimes did, and ultimately, Swiftkey Beta is the one I have chosen.
 
Is there a post outlining the various keyboards available for the Droid Incredible all in one spot? Maybe showing where to get it (market, manual install, etc) and the price?

I'm currently using Swype with a red skin on it, which I pretty much like. Definitely better than the stock keyboard for me. But it does kind of suck in landscape. However I'm generally just using it in portrait so that's sort of a moot point.

I'd like to know what else I should try ... currently downloading Swiftkey Beta and will give that a shot. Is Slide-It free ? Is the Droid X keyboard available in the market? As you can imagine, a search in the market for "droid x" is relatively inefficient...
 
I downloaded the trial version of SlideIt a few days after getting my phone. It works great. After about two days the trial ended and I attempted to go back to the stock keyboard. About 30 seconds later my credit card jumped out of my pocket and paid for SlideIt full version.

Definitely worth the money to me. I think when converted to U.S. currency it ends of being between $7 and $8.
 
elwray said:
Is there a post outlining the various keyboards available for the Droid Incredible all in one spot? Maybe showing where to get it (market, manual install, etc) and the price?

I'm currently using Swype with a red skin on it, which I pretty much like. Definitely better than the stock keyboard for me. But it does kind of suck in landscape. However I'm generally just using it in portrait so that's sort of a moot point.

I'd like to know what else I should try ... currently downloading Swiftkey Beta and will give that a shot. Is Slide-It free ? Is the Droid X keyboard available in the market? As you can imagine, a search in the market for "droid x" is relatively inefficient...
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I use the same swype. I like swiftkey a lot but I missed swype too much. Slide-it is cool, but I do not think it is for me. Especially @ $8.
 
I'm going to give Swift another day but I don't think I'll be hanging on to it for too long ... I'm very used to swype!
 
Guys,

How the heck do you insert a SPACE between two words, without selecting the suggested word when you do hit space?

Any ideas?

I'm starting to like it a lot except:

1) There's no mic button for Text To Speech
2) The accuracy of the keys (how far off center you hit until a key you did not intend is pressed) is worse than the stock Sense keyboard
3) Auto correction is NOT the same as prediction! I hope people understand the difference: the prediction is great but the auto-correction is mediocre

Otherwise, fantastic concept, and way better than Swype or Shapewriter.
 
Bearly said:
Guys,

How the heck do you insert a SPACE between two words, without selecting the suggested word when you do hit space?

Any ideas?

I'm starting to like it a lot except:

1) There's no mic button for Text To Speech
2) The accuracy of the keys (how far off center you hit until a key you did not intend is pressed) is worse than the stock Sense keyboard
3) Auto correction is NOT the same as prediction! I hope people understand the difference: the prediction is great but the auto-correction is mediocre

Otherwise, fantastic concept, and way better than Swype or Shapewriter.
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Agree completely, and wrote this above. Great prediction, horrid correction. If you wanna bang out prose old svhool, using bottom space, your screwed. This Is why the system is flawed If u can touch type fast. In answer to your q, you must tap the top left box as a space bar if u use a word not In swiftkey dictionary, another issue Imho.
 
So day 1 impression of Swiftkey... I'm impressed. I still prefer to "SWYPEing" over push/tap typing.. but the big difference is, Swiftkey's word prediction is so good that I barely have to type anything. I'm completing sentence in 6 taps or less. Pretty amazing. I'm going to try it out for another week.. if this persists.. I might have to make a switch from swype.
 
Has anyone tried Ultra Keyboard? Using Handcent in portrait with the stock keyboard, it annoyed the crap out of me that the send button was missing, so I went on a keyboard hunt as well and ended up on Ultra Keyboard. Very nice, and the dev is very responsive and open to suggestion.

Doc
 
the problem with all these keyboards is the layout is different between them all. I'm not talking position of the microphone (or existence of it) and other buttons. It's the relationship to the letter "A" and "&" vs "A" and "!". What about the Numbers? They're also laid out differently between the keyboards. Then you have keyboards where you can't long-press to get a symbol or number.

That said, I like how swype works as a sliding keyboard AND touch keyboard. I've edited the dictionary enough to keep mispelled words from appearing enough, and when it comes to short 2-3 letter words I type it out (like or vs our) sometimes. I've developed a Swype type keyboard typing.

It isn't w/o its faults, though. So I wish there were a microphone button for it. I wish it were true multitouch. I wish my dictionary didn't get erased evertime a new beta comes out. I don't like the X keyboard at all, for the sheer fact that I can't see where the symbols are.

I'd try slide-it if it were free, and I still need to try swiftkey.

But, as of now, I am most efficient with Swype. I've typed long enough emails on my phone so quickly that my buddies thought I was at home on my computer.
 
Swiftkey has an incredible, INCREDIBLE word prediction.

But yes I do prefer the Swype method.

What is actually meant by "true multitouch"? I'm not really clear on what exactly this means...

Does anyone know if you can remove "stock" words from the Swype dictionary? I know how to remove my personally added words, but some of the stock words are just getting in the way.
 
Is it just me? The biggest complaint I have with ALL these keyboards is the lack of double 'shift' keys(one on each side). I had a Side kick in the old days with double shift. I could type ten times faster than I can now. I have been searching for a phone since then with no luck. Obviously I would never leave my DINC or Verizon for that feature. But i can't believe no one else ever brings it up. It makes typing 10 times faster and easier. No exaggeration........is there one out there and I don't know about it?
 
Swype. I love it, though I'd be more than happy to try SlideIt if they come down on the price. My biggest problem is going from phone keyboard to computer... I keep expecting Office 2007 to auto complete for me!
 
Ok.. upon further usage.. I think I might have to revert back to SWYPE. No doubt about it.. the word prediction on Swiftkey is just amazing. Problem is.. its still a touch per letter keyboard. I consistently mash the wrong buttons, especially on portrait mode. With SWYPE I was able to just mush my thumb all over the place and still get atleast an 80% correct prediction. Then again.. I'm the same weirdo that actually SWYPEs better in landscape. I would love if SWYPE had as good a word prediction as SWIFTKEY/
 
Is anybody else getting progressively WORSE at actual computer keyboard typing? Haha. I mean I keep expecting the first word of a sentence to be auto-capped for me. I expect simple spelling mistakes to be auto-corrected for me.

This is my first smartphone and it is spoiling me. :(
 
Not having a problem on the computer, but my touchscreen GPS in the car and the Garmin on the motorcycle.... wow.

I always want to swipe the screen up and down instead of hitting the down/up arrows, and try Swyping my addresses in!
 
Coming from a Storm1, Sense's Quick QWERTY is one of the only things that I really, really like about Sense. After a week or two of plugging words into your custom dictionary (which is still ridiculously inefficient to edit on the dinc) it works perfect.

Are there any other quick qwerty-style keyboards out there?
 
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