Comments on: The Secret to Mastering the iPhone Keyboard

By: Gando

Gando — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:39:25 +0000

Dozr huh, it tried for doze, but I clicked the 'x' and got dozr. Now it seems to allow dozr more often. Dozr, dozr, dozr, dozr. It corrected that last dozr, and that dozr too! Still trying to type doze though

By: Terrence

Terrence — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:04:06 +0000

Because 90% of Apple's sales are in the US, it's their base you boob. So suck it up and buy some Nokia.

By: jarrisueno

jarrisueno — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:28:32 +0000

Why type ? Voice recognition must be the way to go… and witha an option in different sanskrit related languages

By: chantal

chantal — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:56:20 +0000

I'm having a hard time getting the keyboard to go sideways. It is supposed to do this in all applications? How do you get it to do that? I put it horizontal but the keyboard won't go that way and i thought it was supposed to automatically know it is sideways.

By: Skibum

Skibum — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:13:11 +0000

Does anyone know if Apple is going to release (soon) a version with a slide out keyboard…much like Samsung?

By: On the fence.

On the fence. — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:14:34 +0000

You also misspelled “You're” as “Your”, capitalized “Sounds” most likely not on purpose and didn't include an apostrophe in “hasn't”.

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:32:23 +0000

Your totally wrong.. Sounds like someone has a crackberry addiction and hasnt given the iphone a proper chance..

Typed on my iphone in 26 seconds without predictive text

By: Mac

Mac — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:03:50 +0000

In response to “Mike” …. I am also a BlackBerry user as well as an iPhone user, and I have to say you are WAY off. I type long and extremely complex emails with the iPhone and don't have any problems at all. The recognition software works very well. Yes, there is some backspacing, but that is also true with the BB (though not as much to be sure).

The advice is actually sound. Just type, trust the software, but pay attention (don't trust it completely).

By: Musical instrument

Musical instrument — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:32:10 +0000

I just can't get to grips accounting with two thumbs. I just use my appropriate basis feel but I can blazon appealing fast. You're appropriate – the best way is to blazon fast after annoying too abundant about accepting the appropriate keys. It absolutely does a appealing acceptable job of accepting in right. I've afresh developed a addiction of missing the amplitude bar and hitting “c” which mucks the accomplished affair up though!

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:50:47 +0000

I don't want to be a jerk - but my no stretch off the imagination is this good advice. Why it's not even advice.

Basically you're just saying "Um, accept the word-recognition software."

That's evidently the big "secret"!

Well, for text messages and short e-mails using very common words that may be acceptable. For anything more ambitious it's not. If you need to type something of even the slightest substance, something that may involved names or words the software isn't familiar with, well then the iPhone is atrocious. Vastly inferior to the Blackberry.

I quickly got to the point -- it took maybe ten minutes -- where I could type with one thumb and an index finger (or two thumbs) with real speed and more than acceptable accuracy on my Blackberry. The iPhone is a disaster in this regard. An extreme example of form over function. You just can't do it. (And the "it" in the last sentence would be: type with accuracy! At pretty much any speed!)

There are many, many nice things about the iPhone and I wish I could just switch over. But the keyboard is a real problem for many functions, typing an e-mail with language or grammar beyond the third-grade level certainly comes to mind as one. And this make-believe "advice" is no help whatsoever.

The idea that this is the "secret" (as the blog title calls it) is ludicrous.

Just a really embarrassing (and, yeah, utterly worthless) post. Sorry to be so harsh, but my God . . . that's the "secret"!