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Touchscreen Texting

  • 21-11-2007 3:10am
    #1
    Morbid.Angel
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  • #2
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Yeah, it's nowhere near as good as having real buttons. I've been using touchscreen for the last 3 years and I hardly text much now because of it. If I'm at work or at home I use Outlook to send the texts over bluetooth. If I'm out and about I normally just make a call.


  • #3
    Sam Vimes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    Morbid.Angel wrote: »
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    no i knew that a touchscreen phone would make texting and generally using the phone very annoying so i never bought one :)


  • #4
    slegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,014 ✭✭✭slegs


    This will always be the problem for touchscreen PDA Phones. They have the advantage of a bigger screen allowing better gui interfaces and feature rich applications but a real keyboard will always be the best input mechanism.


  • #5
    chrislad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,324 ✭✭✭chrislad


    I don't text much so it doesn't really bother me. I'm typing this with a touchscreen iPhone andi it was still pretty fast. Only one typing error and took about 30 seconds.


  • #6
    Stepherunie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭Stepherunie


    I was playing around with the iphone when I was in the states and it put me right off.

    Now I know i don't have the most delicate and tiny of fingers (curse my fathers genes) but I was playing with it for a good while over a no of days and i found it a nightmare to hit the right keys and had far more spelling mistakes than usual.


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  • #7
    auggie2k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 311 ✭✭auggie2k


    The Simpsons comes to mind...

    "The fingers you have used to dial are too fat. To obtain a special dialing wand, please mash the keypad with your palm now."

    :):):)


  • #8
    Sam Vimes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    my gps is entirely touchscreen of course and even typing an address in is very irritating because of my hoof like fingers


  • #9
    Owen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    I'm a text addict, with the 400 text add on from Vodafone that I regularly exceed, and sometimes double. Went from an n93 that I could text on with my eyes closed, to the iPhone, and it's okay. Sometimes I'd prefer a keypad, but it isn't too bad. I reckon overall my wpm is the same, but you do miss the tactile feedback.

    Apparently Nokia have a touchscreen coming out next year with haptic feedback, so you'll be able to 'feel' the buttons on the touchscreen.


  • #10
    Tree
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,726 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tree


    my marvellous m600 has a keyboard as well as touch screen, so i only really use the touchscreen to text if im inthe middle of doing other touchscreeny things. bit slower than texting but im too lazy to put the stylus down somedays


  • #11
    towel401
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭towel401


    touch screens on phones are just awful. they should bring in a EU regulation to ban those things. i will never again buy a phone that doesn't have a full keyboard. i have a satphone with the ordinary 12 button keypad and i find it just painful to text on

    and isn't the touchscreen on the much-hated iPhone supposed to wear out after a few months of heavy use? and then there is the whole thing with the touch screens getting dirty, and losing the silly little fake pencil that comes with it


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