Has anyone used thumb keyboard. I just discovered it and I think its slightly better than the gingerbread keyboard which I been using forever. I love the arrow keys on the bottom....I always had trouble placing cursor with my finger......now I can do that with arrow keys. I haven't tried the ics keyboard.....heard it's pretty good too. The only dislike I have about this keyboard is that it takes more space than the gingerbread one but u can decrease the length of the keys in settings.
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Ive been using this for a while now and love it. So many settings like long press duration, different keyboard layouts and you can change the long press symbols! You can also get themes so as im running ICS i can theme it to match. All round excellent keyboard, highly recommended!
I've been using thumbs for 4 months now. It's easy to find whatever special character you need, and as you say, the arow keys are incredibly useful. I have an Asus transformer with the keyboard dock, but if I'm undocked I use thumbs.
It is a must have on a 10" tablet because of the spit screen. It let you type with your THUMBS even in landscape mode.
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I've been using thumbs for 4 months now. It's easy to find whatever special character you need, and as you say, the arow keys are incredibly useful. I have an Asus transformer with the keyboard dock, but if I'm undocked I use thumbs.
It is a must have on a 10" tablet because of the spit screen. It let you type with your THUMBS even in landscape mode.
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I've been using it since the days of my Archos 101, it's a brilliant app, don't use it much on my phone, if at all, but I certainly use it a hell of a lot on my Iconia Tab.
Thumbs, ftw
I've been using it for... as long as I can remember on my Xoom, 8+ months? I like swype better for phone typing but the Xooms screen is way too big to be swyping across!
I kinda agreement with the above posters ...I found myself using this app more on my hp touchpad than my phone. I think the keys are a little less wider for the phone keyboard...of course u can change that too by customizing the width but too lazy to do that. The ap is a def winner for the tablet keyboard.
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Love this keyboard. Using it on my 5" Samsung Player. I can finally match the speed of my teen age kids when texting!!
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going from my original droid to the thunderbolt was cool cuz of all the awesomeness the thunderbolt has to offer with lte and htc sense. I love 98% of the things about the phone. ONE major thing bothers me more than anything else. THE KEYBOARD. the stock droid keyboard is ugly and way too plain. i mean, this site is all about custom, why would i want to revert back to that boring gray square thing. and all of the custom ones in the market suck. The htc keyboard is nice in the sense of having the cool shapes and white keys and longpressing for secondary symbols. I like that. But the god damn arrow keys at the bottom piss me off more than anything. i will never be able to re-configure my brain and muscles in my fingers to adjust to the spacebar being a quarter inch up instead of on the botom of the screen and i constantly hit an arrow key instead of space when im going real fast and it just screws up my whole text or whatever im typing. anybody able to modify that on here? or at least have a better alternative?
OH and also the stupid word corrections go over the send BUTTON!!! BULLSH**!! i hate have to either pick a suggestion or save a word into the dictionary. what if i dont want to save that word? i should be able to just hit send like a stock android phone, where the suggestions come up above the keyboard instead of on top of your message... bad move htc.
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I like Better Keyboard.
My personal favorite is Smart Keyboard. There are a ton of options to customize and easy to install and make skins. The new Swiftkey X Bets looks promising too.
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+1 smart keyboard, you can resize portrait and landscape to be absolutely gigantic and a bunch of different layouts. Add gestures, which is nice for easy movement of the cursor without arrow buttons.
I actually like Thumb Keyboard.
You can turn off the word suggestions if you don't like it.
I use better keyboard, but the new Swiftkey Beta is pretty nice too!
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i actually have become partial to the 8Pen keyboard. after learning it, i'm much faster and more accurate with it. not to mention everyone at work thinks its amazing and they're always wanting to try it out. i even converted one of my co-workers to an 8Pen user =)
I use the original SwiftKey from the Amazon Market when it was a free app awhile back. I havn't had any issues so I havn't seen the need to try the swiftkey x beta but I am sure its good too.
I really really like the new SwiftKey X Beta. Prior to that I used the normal SwiftKey. Even before that, I was a diehard stock HTC keyboard fan so I'm not sure if my opinion will help any
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I was on Phonedog and came across this article:
http://www.phonedog.com/2012/04/29/can-we-put-an-end-to-this-tablet-phone-hybrid-rom-trend-already/
I personally love the new tablet mode and I thought the article was a bit harsh. Not that any of it matters as long as everyone enjoys their phone, just thought I'd share my findings.
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The author seems to be retarded. He doesn't like tablet mode, so he flashed the mod to enable tablet mode. Fantastic plan.
The author is a BB user. But everyone has their own opinion.
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I appreciate that article.
It means I won't ever take that person's advice, or expect their articles to reflect things relevant to my taste or interests. I respect the writer having an opionion that differs from mine, and I am sure there are people who agree with the author. They all have the right to be wrong, I guess.
Meh, to each their own.
The only part of the article I don't like is where he mentions this being a recent thing.
People have been doing Tablet UI Mod since ICS first came out. I had tablet mod on my Inspire 4g just by using an AOSP rom and then moving the appropriate services.jar and systemui from another phone (nexus if i recall) and changing the dpi.
It's not like people just figured out phones on ICS could do tablet mod, and I still think its a niche few who actually will end up Dailying it, but who cares if they do or do not. It's entirely usable, I've been using it on the Note since the first release and it's been perfectly fine, and when I don't want it, I can change it back or go to GB if I so desire.
Sounds like he should leave his phones stock.
I liked tablet mode. But there are too many bugs needed to be fixed.
So I flashed mine back to ginger bread
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The author is a BB user. But everyone has their own opinion.
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The author is definitely not a bb user. Out of all the phonedog writers, he's been the most vocal in his love of the Note and consistently ranks it as the number one smartphone.
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I am usually the first one to try new ROMs as they appear.
Although I don't agree with everything he says and the stance he is taking, I do agree with him on how the tablet mode, as is available now, is not so pragmatic for the Note.
One of the main reasons why I like using the Note is how easy it is to view things on a relatively large screen. When converted to the tablet mode for a while, I didn't really appreciate how small fonts are on most of the apps and how I found myself constantly zooming in to view the content, as I used to do with smaller display phones in the past. Also, the persistent notification bar with menu buttons didn't appeal to me either, as I would rather use full screen until I need to access the status bar as necessary. (I use gesture to toggle the status bar on Apex Launcher) I have used the Big Font to adjust system font size but that only affects the system apps, it appears, not in other 3rd-party apps.
I do use my phone mostly in the portrait mode and sometimes in landscape mode.
The tablet mode seems more useful in the landscape mode only.
I have asked others and tried to find out for myself the advantages of the tablet mode but didn't see many other than two-panes mode in Settings and Email app being useful at times.
So, my question to all who like the tablet mode is what do you like about the tablet mode over and above what NOTEWorthy or Seraphim or Alpha3 provide in phone mode? Please help me better understand this issue. Thanks.
I like it. While Tablet mode might not be everyone's cup of tea, people shouldn't try to get devs to stop creating amazing projects that people do like to use.
It's not like anyone is forcing this guy to use the Hybrid Rom. He could use any other type of ROM
I do use my phone mostly in the portrait mode and sometimes in landscape mode.
The tablet mode seems more useful in the landscape mode only.
I have asked others and tried to find out for myself the advantages of the tablet mode but didn't see many other than two-panes mode in Settings and Email app being useful at times.
So, my question to all who like the tablet mode is what do you like about the tablet mode over and above what NOTEWorthy or Seraphim or Alpha3 provide in phone mode? Please help me better understand this issue. Thanks.
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I actually prefer tablet mode in portrait. My eyes aren't so bad that I can't see it, but it's not in my face and GINORMOUS icons everywhere. The only thing I can't stand is the four extra buttons. I have four buttons a couple centimeters lower, so I'm hoping those buttons could be eliminated to make room for more status bar icons.
I also like the status bar being at the bottom. It feels like there's so much more room on the screen.
My DD before this was Seraphim with SPB. Haven't looked back since (although I love the Collective's roms.)
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The author is definitely not a bb user. Out of all the phonedog writers, he's been the most vocal in his love of the Note and consistently ranks it as the number one smartphone.
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He definitely was a long time bb user. I've been following phonedog for a while now and many of his articles I've read he recalls his bb days.
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What bothers me about the article is he is telling people it isn't worth trying. That it breaks things and is barely usable. I've had the most success with any ICS rom on this rom with tablet ui.
Lol it says so in his little about me section. Unless he's lying.
http://www.phonedog.com/authors/BBCasper/
"BBcasper"
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I'm not a big fan of tablet mode, just because the dpi. Lowering the dpi that low ruins widgets, keyboards, web browsing, watching videos(bar stays active reducing video size) and other features. It's mostly a dpi issue and not the tablet mode itself. If it were 320dpi and the bar would disappear while playing vids, it would fix everything for me.
Why do people always make a big deal if someone likes something or not? I haven't tried tablet mode so I can't say if it's good or not but if that person doesn't like it he has the right not too. If you like it then why do you care if someone else doesn't? Just enjoy your device and let people think whatever they like.
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Why do people always make a big deal if someone likes something or not? I haven't tried tablet mode so I can't say if it's good or not but if that person doesn't like it he has the right not too. If you like it then why do you care if someone else doesn't? Just enjoy your device and let people think whatever they like.
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Probably because he writes for a major website and his articles are viewed by thousands maybe hundreds of thousands. They see his article and would never try the mod because he scares them off when there's really nothing that can break the phone from it if you do it right.
See this s** is really starting to piss me off. If this mofo doesn't like the best phone in the northeast then he can go back to his fng Nokia flip phone.
God damnit and he probably made so much money on us just clicking the damn link
THEY STIRR UP TROUBKE FOR SITE VIEWS=$ FOR THEM
In his head, "I'm just gonna piss off the galaxy note users so they can bash me and post comments. ILL SO GET PROMOTED"
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This guy is just plain confused.. he says "dont bite the hand that feeds you" yet thats exactly what he did. He even says that tablet mode will be useful when you can use it for HDMI mirroring on a larger screen.. well buddy, how do you think things like that will come about without development and testers?
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Probably because he writes for a major website and his articles are viewed by thousands maybe hundreds of thousands. They see his article and would never try the mod because he scares them off when there's really nothing that can break the phone from it if you do it right.
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I would tend to agree with that but I don't think this applies to people that install different ROMs on their phone. I would think that people generally try things before making up their mind. This article isn't directed at the general public since they generally stick with whatever comes on their phone. When I want to try something new I usually look for articles or reviews of people what have negative things to say about something and then try it out myself. The whole idea behind different ROMs is that there is something out there for everyone and even when somebody likes it or hates it you could have a completely different opinion. If someone reads an article and makes up their mind before trying it then they're doing it wrong.
Tablet mode is freaking awesome on the galaxy nexus.
But its not for the note until all the little stuff are fixed, or until cm9 is out
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The author is a BB user. But everyone has their own opinion.
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I agree. Everyone has their own opinion.
I don't like the tablet mode. I will not have it. I have no plans of getting it whatsoever.
But at least I don't post stupid things like that blog.
LOL
A lot of blogs do this to get hits or views on the webpage.
-Once you go NOTE, you'd say 4 inches a Joke
@ the 20sec mark take a look at the keyboard sentence prediction. I'm a big fan of Swiftkey but this would sure be an improvement.
That was pretty cool. I wonder why they chose a model to "type" so damn slowly..When the new swype beta came out, the commercial they did was much better in showing how efficient it was...BB should probably have done the same here.
Not really feelin' it. Blackberry is supposed to be professional grade, and any keyboard that tries to think for you is bound to cause problems. Much more so in business. It looks innovative, at least.
Also, wonder how long it will be before somebody does it for Android. It seems to be just like the word prediction in SwiftKey and others, but with the words over letters rather than across the top. It's definitely smart.
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Not really feelin' it. Blackberry is supposed to be professional grade, and any keyboard that tries to think for you is bound to cause problems. Much more so in business. It looks innovative, at least.
Also, wonder how long it will be before somebody does it for Android. It seems to be just like the word prediction in SwiftKey and others, but with the words over letters rather than across the top. It's definitely smart.
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Having used Swiftkey on a daily basis with the learning options enabled. It's at the point that most text messages and basic personal and work emails never require a single word to be typed.
I can however see your point. More complex sentence structures tend to fail but in the end overall speed is increased greatly.
Bad ass
I have to say that is pretty cool, I wouldn't mind trying out that keyboard! as long as it doesn't AUTO correct me I'd be ok!
Somebody make this and take my money!
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Lokifish Marz said:
Having used Swiftkey on a daily basis with the learning options enabled. It's at the point that most text messages and basic personal and work emails never require a single word to be typed.
I can however see your point. More complex sentence structures tend to fail but in the end overall speed is increased greatly.
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indeed enjoying swiftkey 3 beta right now
i cant stand having the swiftkey "key" in the bottom right, time has taught me that is where your number keypad selector is..
And now today I see the new blackberry camera app. I have to say that I am quite impressed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF2cLwPHaNY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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That was impressive...
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That was Sick!
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After using the latest iPad, I must say I'm falling in love with the gestures. I still do think the Prime owns the iPad in a variety of aspects. Are there any developers in the midst of porting or creating something similar for us Android guys?
Gmd gesturecontrol
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Go Launcher HD has some useful gesture options, especially for multitasking.
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Search Gesturecontrol everything together in the market, a friend of mine has an iPad 3 and was drooling after he saw what i was doing with gestures hehe.
+1 for GestureControl
This app is freaking awesome and truely deserves to be bought.
thanks everyone!
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Search Gesturecontrol everything together in the market, a friend of mine has an iPad 3 and was drooling after he saw what i was doing with gestures hehe.
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Thanks didn't know this app existed. I just bought it.
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JC0406 said:
After using the latest iPad, I must say I'm falling in love with the gestures. I still do think the Prime owns the iPad in a variety of aspects. Are there any developers in the midst of porting or creating something similar for us Android guys?
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Your post is so descriptive it quite obviously warranted a thread all of it's own. Please give more detail in future posts.
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Your post is so descriptive it quite obviously warranted a thread all of it's own. Please give more detail in future posts.
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Or you could type "Ipad 3 gestures" in Youtube and see what he is talking about.
I was thinking the same, seeing my brothers ipad the gestures are so useful for speedy use of a tablet. Has anyone comapred the speed/responsiveness of this GMD Gesture Control to that of an ipad? I'd definitely be tempted to buy it if its as good as the ipads.
As much as I dont like Apple is some ways, in others they really have got some great stuff that we are missing on Android
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I was thinking the same, seeing my brothers ipad the gestures are so useful for speedy use of a tablet. Has anyone comapred the speed/responsiveness of this GMD Gesture Control to that of an ipad? I'd definitely be tempted to buy it if its as good as the ipads.
As much as I dont like Apple is some ways, in others they really have got some great stuff that we are missing on Android
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It is better. The amount of stuff you can do is simply amazing.
You can setup every single pattern you can think of to anything from 1 finger to 5 fingers. And the reaction time is instant. No lag.
The best thing is, it uses absolute 0 extra energy, the tablet has no issues going into deep sleep mode and it just work.
Right now I have something like:
4 Fingers Pinch -> Home
4 Fingers Expand -> Screenoff
3 Fingers Expand -> Recent opened apps
3 Fingers Pitch -> OverSkreen
2 Fingers From left border to right -> Back
3 Fingers Upper border to down -> Hide the Status bar (bar with clock buttons and ICS stuff).
Works wonders, you can also set it up to something like right, up, left pattern, square, triangle, you name it, to do anything you want
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Your post is so descriptive it quite obviously warranted a thread all of it's own. Please give more detail in future posts.
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Before you just barge in with your criticism, why not just simply 'Google' it.
Zephyrot said:
It is better. The amount of stuff you can do is simply amazing.
You can setup every single pattern you can think of to anything from 1 finger to 5 fingers. And the reaction time is instant. No lag.
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Sounds promising! I watched the video from the Google Play store and there does look to be some lag when pinch closing for example, maybe its an old video.
I'll have to try out the lite version and see whether it lives up to my demands! Only problem now is I cant root .21
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Sounds promising! I watched the video from the Google Play store and there does look to be some lag when pinch closing for example, maybe its an old video.
I'll have to try out the lite version and see whether it lives up to my demands! Only problem now is I cant root .21
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You can root. 21! You have to downgrade to .15 root and then go to. 21.
The whole process is somewhere in general
Regarding the app, i first tried the free version but was like meh.... then there was another thread about the app here and i decided to give it a try ... ohman it was worth it ;D
I know autocorrect has given touchscreen users a fair amount of nightmares, but for me I've grown to use it and need it even. So I was wondering if there was a way to get it to auto correct with the dock? I know the prime underlines misspelled words but when I'm power typing its a pain in the posterior to go back just to add apostrophes and capital letters. Just a thought. Maybe I've just reached a new level of laziness, but hey its summer, who cares?!
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