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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.
sorry about the long post....
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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Now First off Don't get me wrong, I'm Not starting this thread with intentions to Sh.t on the EVO 3D at All!
"I Personally Love it, and think it was
Definitely Well Worth The Wait!"
With that said...
Like with just about Anything in life, People are Always going to find Something or Someone... To Single out and find whatever Negative there're able to dig up in order to Complain about the Littlest Petty Sh.t they can think of, and I Know unless the Phones actually Customized for them, There's Always going to be something they would Change if they Could...
But Again, I'm Not at all starting this thread to Bash the EVO 3D! I'm Just simply listing certain features I guess I Wish were maybe a little more User Friendly (In My Opinion) for Everyone that may Agree with Me...
1.) I'd have to say coming from the CDMA HTC Hero, I Definitely Miss having the Trackball for "Easy" Scrolling!
2.) Well I suppose this is Almost the same as the first but... In My Opinion since they (HTC) did away with the Trackball they should of at least gave us a Keyboard with Directional Arrows! Especially for the people like me that Always seem to find their self having to Edit a Typo. It's Almost like Surgery having to Drag the pointer, either that "OR" just Try and get Lucky enough to Touch the Perfect spot between to Small ass Letters!
3.) I'm Not Feeling the Stupid Battery Cover! I basically have to Wrestle with it and say a Prayer to God that i Won't Break it to pieces when I Snap it off,
Get it... SNAP it off! Lol...
4.) I Hate the fact that in Settings/SDCard Storage there's even a Option to... Mount/UnMount the Micro SD when its Totally Impossible to Do either on the EVO 3D Without Removing the Battery First! "If Anyone figures out a way Please Post it Here for me!"
5.) I Don't like the Location of the Charger Port! HTC... What was Wrong with "Perfectly Center" on the Bottom? Wasn't Broke till You guys Fixed it! Lol...
6.) Now Maybe I just Don't Handle or Except Change well, But I just Can't seem to get use to the Volume Up/Down buttons on the Right side if the phone, Instead of the Left like on my Poor Retired Hero! Ugh, I Miss it Already...
7.) For whatever reason, While I'm Typing a Text or "Double Clicking" on a Web page to Zoom In/Out it Jumps to a completely Different Spot!
8.) Another thing I came across is when I try to Click the Up Arrow on the Keyboard to Capitalize a letter it almost Always selects the (Z) button instead of Capitalizing the Damn word! The letters (O) and (P) also Do the same to me!
9.) Finally, Last but Not Least...
Give a Damn Option to Un-Install those Pointless System Clogging Apk's like StockMarket, Twitter, Facebook, etc....
I Understand they made it into the System files for... $$$ Purposes but at least give the User the Option to Install Facebook, or whatever else really Isn't Necessary on the Own!
10.)
** If You Noticed I Stopped At 9**
So Anyone that's Willing, Fill in Your 10...
Or Simply just "My" 10th!
*Maybe, If there's Enough people Leaning in a certain Direction on a certain Subject, The EVO 3D Developers can kind of Reference the Infomation and Somehow Incorporate it into their Future Builds!*
"Obviously Not the Physical Buttons,etc."
if your that unhappy with the phone why would you keep it ?
Just sell it and get something you do like.
CheesyNutz said:
if your that unhappy with the phone why would you keep it ?
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I'm Not Unhappy with the Phones Internal Features... Mainly just some Externals! Plus I Don't have that many Options seeing I'm Locked in with Sprint again, and I like the whole Sense look!
Like I said I Still Love the Phone, its Fast as Hell and a All Around Great phone but I'm also Considering its Fairly New and the Longer its around the Better it'll get with Development!
No kickstand and charging port location are my only gripes. I don't think ANYONE will ever have a phone they r 100% happy with.
Although my EVO 4G was pretty close to being perfect.
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beatblaster said:
Just sell it and get something you do like.
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See the thing is I like the whole Sense UI look so my Opinions are kind of Limited seeing that I Don't wanna Leave Sprint!
And certain Physical stuff Isn't really enough for me to just Abandon it!
Meh. I was diehard HTC. I had the hero, then to the evo4g(while always yearning for pure Google). Evo 3d wasn't for me so in may I went nexus s.
I say root it, flash 2.3.4/5 and be done.
If you like sense, root the stock and delete all that junk.
I loved and hated that trackball, I finagled new hero's cause I didn't like the white trackball becoming tinged. Honestly, the evo3d, physically, seems a bit utilitarian to me.
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sand1303 said:
No kickstand and charging port location are my only gripes. I don't think ANYONE will ever have a phone they r 100% happy with.
Although my EVO 4G was pretty close to being perfect.
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I can honestly say that the nexus s 4g has succeeded in that role. I love this device; form factor, speed, aesthetics ...and everything just works.
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I guess I'm just kind of Hoping to bump into a Suggestion I Havent thought of!
But from what I see the EVO 3D's kind of my Best Choice, at least for Now...
I love this phone more then my dog (he chewed my chef clogs last night) but I miss the kick stand, I like the charger on the bottom of the phone and I have a lot of typos due to the smaller keyboard (maybe I just have big thumbs)
With that being said, I can HONESTLY say there is not another phone on the market I'd rather have. And YES that includes SGSII. (Touchwiz blows)
Peace and love
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My only gripe is that the camera is totally useless due to the ridiculous shutter lag (delay between when you take the shot and when the camera actually snaps the shot). No combination of settings can change it: shutter lag is always 0.5 to 1.0 second... sometimes more. Other than that, the phone is near perfect and I'm hoping HTC will put some emphasis on fixing the dud of a camera in the next update.
Mike
chefdave12118 said:
I love this phone more then my dog (he chewed my chef clogs last night) but I miss the kick stand, I like the charger on the bottom of the phone and I have a lot of typos due to the smaller keyboard (maybe I just have big thumbs)
With that being said, I can HONESTLY say there is not another phone on the market I'd rather have. And YES that includes SGSII. (Touchwiz blows)
Peace and love
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Got a Laugh outta me...
I must have Big Thumbs too! Lmao!
mikeyxda said:
My only gripe is that the camera is totally useless due to the ridiculous shutter lag (delay between when you take the shot and when the camera actually snaps the shot). No combination of settings can change it: shutter lag is always 0.5 to 1.0 second... sometimes more. Other than that, the phone is near perfect and I'm hoping HTC will put some emphasis on fixing the dud of a camera in the next update.
Mike
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Have you had the Lag with both 2D and 3D? Tell you the Truth I know the Camera was one of the Hooks to Reel everyone in but i Haven't even tried to take a Picture yet! But good to know about the Shutter lag!
Thanx...
1. It should be dual 8M camera rather than just dual 5M
2. Yeah, give me back keyboard arrows
3. 3rd party equalizer not working on stock music player
4. Both SIM and sdcard should be accessible without removing the back cover
5. I love the camera button, but is it necessary to make 2D/3D switch a physical button also?
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Plenty of good keyboard options available with navigation arrows.
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Plenty of good keyboard options available with navigation arrows.
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What are they? I only found one!
But I want this one but it Has to be Ported I think?
chefdave12118 said:
I love this phone more then my dog (he chewed my chef clogs last night) but I miss the kick stand, I like the charger on the bottom of the phone and I have a lot of typos due to the smaller keyboard (maybe I just have big thumbs)
With that being said, I can HONESTLY say there is not another phone on the market I'd rather have. And YES that includes SGSII. (Touchwiz blows)
Peace and love
Rootyourdroid.net. My nephews blog.
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Exactly everything you said Dave! If I were going to post, it would have been word for word, lol. All in all I'm happy tho.
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What are they? I only found one!
But I want this one but it Has to be Ported I think?
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Try thumb keyboard. Using it to type this message in landscape, its got Mega spacebars.. navigation keys are in portrait. I also think that swiftkey has navigation arrows, not swiftkey x, swiftkey. I can still install the original swiftkey from Amazon app store.
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PMGRANDS said:
What are they? I only found one!
But I want this one but it Has to be Ported I think?
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SwiftKey X too has the nav arrows...
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SwiftKey X too has the nav arrows...
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Smart keyboard pro also has navigation arrows as well as an option to use the volume keys to move the cursor.
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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!!
@ 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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I've got concerns about not having a keyboard..
Does anyone who has owned a keyboard phone ever made the switch to one of these large screens?
I'd love to hear about the transition..
I had a physical keyboard for all my phones until the EVO 4G. I thought it was going to be a brutal transition - but it wasn't. I'd never want another physical keyboard again actually.
Suggestion: Pay for Swiftkey X. It is amazing keyboard. It learns your typing habits and has incredible predictive capabilities. I have OFTEN missed every single letter of a word, and it still has the correct word ready for me, haha. Worth every penny.
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lol jk. having a keyboard or not is a personal preference and I can't speak for you but IMO a phone is way better without and you'd get used to it fast. Google it or check this out http://www.talkandroid.com/55183-physical-or-virtual-keyboard-maybe-we-can-help-you-decide/ and it should be an easy decision.
ohh, and x2 for swiftkey. I can type with my eyes closed almost.
Years ago i asked the same question. These guys are right, its all about finding the right keyboard on screen. I am still old school and like the Gingerbread Keyboard available for free on the market. But swiftkey x is a very nice 2nd choice for me.
The SwiftKey 3 beta on their forums (you have to register, it's free) is great. A few little quips here and there but it's beta software. I've used SwiftKey X since it came out. Beautiful keyboard, amazing predictions. Sometimes it puts hilarious but completely wrong stuff in there. I was typing "especially", I got to "esp" and it suggested "Esperanza". I laughed.
Nothing will ever beat Swype!
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I've got concerns about not having a keyboard..
Does anyone who has owned a keyboard phone ever made the switch to one of these large screens?
I'd love to hear about the transition..
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i'll be making the journey with you...no fears my friend...i will be giving my overflashed and abused epic to my wife
ECrispy said:
Nothing will ever beat Swype!
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Except for SwiftKeyX and SwiftKey 3 Beta.
Seriously, I loved Swype for a long time - now I never use it.
Even the stock HTC keyboard should work well if you have the word prediction enabled. The screens are so large that unless you have gargantuan hands its a breeze to type, I too had a keyboard phone before the EVO 4G and i will never go back.
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I will also b giving my epic to my wife rod lol glad to see you jumping to this phone as well
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i'll be making the journey with you...no fears my friend...i will be giving my overflashed and abused epic to my wife
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What??? Your all Supposed to wait for the Galaxy S III !!!!!
EEEEEEEWWWW HTC
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What??? Your all Supposed to wait for the Galaxy S III !!!!!
EEEEEEEWWWW HTC
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Who wants to.wait that long besides all those features gonna make it harder for updates.
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I will be coming from the epic!! This will be my first phone with out a keyboard... Scary lol... But im going to give it a try.
If we can just get cm9 this phone will be amazing!!!
I'm still on the edge. I want to come over to the 4G LTE, but all of the Sprint Samsung developers just formed some kind of super alliance and I really like our devs on this phone. It is a tough decision and I still need time to think about it.
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I will be making the jump from the epic to the new Evo, but not until SWAC can get the Evo so maybe June/July. I never use my epic's physical keyboard. Used to use swype, now I can't stay away from swiftkey x/beta3 either are great!
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I'm still on the edge. I want to come over to the 4G LTE, but all of the Sprint Samsung developers just formed some kind of super alliance and I really like our devs on this phone. It is a tough decision and I still need time to think about it.
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super alliance haha that's funny...hopefully developers from other devices will see how beneficial it was for all of us to come together and actually get stuff done
Epic 4g touch user Evo-bound.
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I am switching from the Epic to the EVO. I am annoyed by the Epic's constant hardware failure, so I was very turned off by Samsung.
Glad to see some Sammy ppl come to HTC we have a few 3d ppl who are switching to Sammy lol or say Sammy is better anyways. Anyways that's all can't wait to get this phone
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For me personally, having come from a touch pro 2 to the old evo, with all of my close friends using epics, i would have to say that the transition was not as hard as i imagined it to be, from one of the best hardware keyboards on a phone to having no keyboard at all. The screen size on the original evo definately made a difference in usability, and i would imagine that the even bigger screen on the new one will make it much less harsh. At first i thought it was because i was just able to adapt because i just got the hang of it, but then i tried to use the tiny keyboards on my parents' iphones and i realized fast that the screen size was a big factor.
I use keyboard manager to keep it in swype in portrait mode and switch to thumb keyboard in landscape, its a little less accurate than having a hardware keyboard, but its not the end of the world.