no i love it when my gboard cache fills up or whatever and the typing is so laggy that only 60% of my key presses register and i have to do it really slowly i think it’s good
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Phen@lemmy.eco.br 10 months ago
I wish they would put a proper keyboard on a phone again. There’s dozens of people like me who misses those things, why is nobody doing it?
nutsack@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 10 months ago
have you considered a FOSS keyboard? For me, autocorrect is annoying and there is no swiping, but in like 3 weeks you’ll get good enough at typing you’ll need neither.
nutsack@lemmy.world 10 months ago
i use the suggestion strip a lot especially with secondary languages that have larger alphabets
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 10 months ago
dozens of people
Including me I guess that makes thirteen of us now.
Decoy321@lemmy.world 10 months ago
dozens
That makes you number 25
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m sure even fewer people want the thing I want back: a scroll wheel a la Blackberrys from the '00s. Those things were incredibly accurate and allowed pixel-specific pointing, something that you just don’t get from a touchscreen.
dustyData@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The same reason for the small phone form factor, the 3.5mm headphone jack, and the replaceable battery disappearance. All extraordinary ideas that I would personally would like to still be a thing for the sake of providing variety and choice to all customers. There’s a vocal minority that constantly asks and demands those features. But when manufacturers make and sell them, they only move a few thousand units in contrasts to the several hundred millions of sales for the traditional models. Because conceptually they might be good sensible ideas, but on a practical sense, they aren’t the main priority of the vast majority.
Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Why for. ? Maybe what would be better is a VR keyboard. If it can give haptic feedback then do you really need a physical board
jmp242@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
The issue is I can touch type / hunt and peck with a physical keyboard, and I never accidentally type something by brushing my finger on the key as I pass. It’s just much faster.
Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Get a Bluetooth keyboard they’re great, little fold out one size of your phone or a tiny or one that straps to your arm… So many different types, I even saw one built into a phone case
jmp242@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I’m not aware of ones that will let me hold the phone by them - but I tend to not have major brand phones which I’m sure exacerbates this. I had a Xiaomi Mi 8 Lite for 4ish years, I just got a more mainstream OnePlus N30, so maybe I can look for a different case that has a keyboard in it, though I still doubt I could hold by it and double thumb type.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I cannot type worth a shit on the touch keyboard on my Z4, despite it being roughly double the size of the touch keyboard on my first touch-only phone. Hell, I could finger type better on my resistive touch, single point only, meant-to-be-used-with-a-stylus WinCE PDA back in the day. I think this has to do with the edges of the screen being too damn close to the physical edge of the device, so there’s no decent way to simultaneously hold it without dropping it and contort your fingers into the quintuple jointed clawlike posture required to hit the lower row and spacebar.
And I bought my original Z Play on the promise of a physical keyboard Moto Mod, which turned out to be vaporware. Yes, I’m still pissed off about that.
Modern bezeless phones may look all swanky and futuristic sitting there on display in the store but they’re a step backwards in actual usability. I would take a slider or even a clamshell with a physical QWERTY keyboard any day.
tzrlk@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And I bought my original Z Play on the promise of a physical keyboard Moto Mod, which turned out to be vaporware. Yes, I’m still pissed off about that.
Omg HARD same.
I really wish creators would stop shifting the goalposts on everything and just make what they said they would. It doesn’t need to be balanced, it doesn’t need a battery, it just needs to exist.
Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Have you customized your touch keyboard at all? You can resize and move it to fit your hands/thumbs. And that’s just the built-in keyboard. If you go third party there are tons of options. You may even prefer a transparent floating keyboard for some situations, like entering text in a wide-screen game, so the game isn’t cut off to like 10% of the height of the screen.
And if you find yourself accidentally adding letters rhere and there, you can add a 0.01 second hold time before a key is pressed. Low enough that you’ll never have to thinknabout it when actually typing something but high enough to ignore most accidental presses. Also if extra inputs happen without you noticing them and you have to go back and fix them when you do spot them, crank your haptic feedback up higher. Won’t miss an accidental press then.
One of the main upsides of Android phones is that you have the ability to spend 30 minutes in the options menu of one tiny element of your phone experience. The default settings work for alot of people, but if they don’t work for you, change them.
tal@lemmy.today 10 months ago
here’s no decent way to simultaneously hold it without dropping it and contort your fingers into the quintuple jointed clawlike posture required to hit the lower row and spacebar.
Use a soft keyboard that doesn’t extend to the edge of the screen?
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 10 months ago
Totally agree. The smartphone market is wayyy to homogenous. All they compete over is price and what alphanumeric digits the chips contain. Give us foldables, sliders, cheap phones, high end phones, phones full of ports, small phones, and big phones. This is what the phone market used to be about until the mid '10s
Dempf@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
And what about phones with a removable battery? Would be real nice to keep a couple spares instead of a big power brick I have to charge it from.
nutsack@lemmy.world 10 months ago
you will never see that happen again. phones need to be disposable
iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Batteries for phones sold in the EU will all be replaceable within 3.5 years:
…europa.eu/…/new-eu-rules-for-more-sustainable-an…
The EU actually forced companies to help consumers, so they are already planning to comply… even Apple.
visor841@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, I love my XCover Pro for this.