Ipheuria
Well-known member
OK So now that I'm sick I love the keyboard even more. I have an IV in myeft hand so to type I put my iPhone on my leg. Then type with my right hand, try that with a manual keyboard. love the keyboard
I was actually holding off to get a BB Bold solely because I HATED the iPhone keyboard. (I am coming from a QWERTY keyboard). I went into my local Apple store and played with it several times for extended periods at a time and still couldn't bring myself to like it. However, at the time the Bold was not going to be released for awhile and I had to get a new phone immediately and I LOVED everything else about the iPhone.... just the stinkin' keyboard.
Now, however, I am a convert. I love the iPhone keyboard for several reasons.
1. My QWERTY keyboard was starting to go. The buttons would stick and some letters (particularly D and H) had to be hit several times HARD before they would respond. No problems like this for the iPhone for obvious reasons.
2. The Auto Correct on the Apple store's iPhone was a hot mess. After people using and abusing the thing it really didn't auto correct anything and would change words that I didn't want changed... it was frustrating to say the least. It is much different when it is your own phone. My slang is no longer auto corrected and everything else is. It is beautiful.
I do miss being able to look at the screen and type rather than having to stare at the keyboard... I am getting to the point where I don't have to completely stare at the keyboard as I type... rather I use my peripheral vision. Still, not quite as good as the touch-typing I had before.
The iPhone has a real keyboard. Otherwise you couldn't type on it. It just doesn't have a keyboard with push buttons. It's still a real keyboard. I wish people would make this distinction. Or is it just me?
That's like saying a hybrid car isn't a real car.
No moving parts. I chuckle at my coworkers when they have to replace a BB because of a bad keyboard. It happens more often than you think.
I don't consider it a real keyboard...more of a virtual keyboard, in my view. It works, but not as well as one with buttons that are tactile, IMHO.
True, but does a button keyboard rotate to landscape? Can it change depending on the situation, say to make it easier to type an email address? The iPhone keyboard can do that. If you look, if you enter an email in a specific situation, you can hit the ".com" button.
Yeah, but when the virtual keyboard goes away, the screen on the iPhone is still bigger. Just a trade off.
I've had 4 blackberries, and none of them have ever had a keyboard button malfunction. Since owning the iPhone for 3 weeks, I have, however noticed that I have to tap items to select or launch items several times over for it to register sometimes because it didn't register the first time. Don't get me wrong... I do really like my iPhone, but I don't think it does everything better than the BB.