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we bought my grandma a cellphone for christmas

The look on her face just said "what is this sorcery!?" But she´s getting the hang of it haha.

I think that windows phones are good. They beat iphone anyday, but android is also a competitor. IPhones have been relatively the same until ios 7 came out. You know where they got the nice text and the white keyboard from? Windows phone.

its clearly evident.

iphone is a good phone but.imo, its not worth the money. You pay £500 for an iphone and i pay £170 for a windows phone or an android phone which can do most, if not all of the same stuff, and wp does some things better.

anyway, i guess its whatever floats your boat...

After a bitter love-hate relationship with BlackBerry (love the keyboard, hate the rest of it) I really think the market displays a lack of physical QWERTY keyboards. Other than what BlackBerry produces, there are no high-end phone offerings fitted out with a QWERTY. Having used an iPhone and a BlackBerry side-by-side for 7 years now, I still can't beat the speed of my BlackBerry when typing on my iPhone.

However I recently noticed that because you need more force/energy to type on a BlackBerry, long typing sessions, while faster, are more painful on the Berry. Hence I've recently ditched my BlackBerry Q10, and gone for a Samsung Note 3 instead. So now it's iPhone 5s and Samsung Note 3. the Note 3 is a great phone - but the battery life is absolute bollocks. With power-saving mode turned on, it will last me 8am to 8pm under normal use. Hence why I shelled out the money for an extra charger at my office...

raymondu999 wrote:After a bitter love-hate relationship with BlackBerry (love the keyboard, hate the rest of it) I really think the market displays a lack of physical QWERTY keyboards. Other than what BlackBerry produces, there are no high-end phone offerings fitted out with a QWERTY. Having used an iPhone and a BlackBerry side-by-side for 7 years now, I still can't beat the speed of my BlackBerry when typing on my iPhone.

However I recently noticed that because you need more force/energy to type on a BlackBerry, long typing sessions, while faster, are more painful on the Berry. Hence I've recently ditched my BlackBerry Q10, and gone for a Samsung Note 3 instead. So now it's iPhone 5s and Samsung Note 3. the Note 3 is a great phone - but the battery life is absolute bollocks. With power-saving mode turned on, it will last me 8am to 8pm under normal use. Hence why I shelled out the money for an extra charger at my office...

You´d have to see my cousin, she writes with the typical full screen qwerty of a touchscreen, and she types a lot faster than me on the computer, and I know typing and do it for a lot of years (I´m not the fastest you can find typing, but I´m not slow either), but the speed can´t be compared, she´s around two times faster than me at least

She´s so fast I can´t barely believe it, really, and she doesn´t make any mistake.

It´s just a matter of practice, send 1 million messages per day like she does , and you´ll be even faster than you´re with the berry. The speed she types would be imposible to match with a standard keyboard that force you to push (and not only touch) each letter, so actually nothing is faster than a touchscreen.

If you can´t believe it I´ll understand it, I thought touchscreen keyboards sucks, but that´s just because we´re get used to standard keyboards. Watching my cousing typing made me realice it´s just a matter of practice, and if you get enough, nothing can beat a touchscreen because a touchscreen can be activated with just a brush or graze, what makes it a lot faster than a standard keyboard

I think the problem is when you know typing, a standard keyboard provide you some feedback, you feel if you´re hitting the correct point, while a touchscreen is smooth and you don´t know if you´re hitting the correct point, or between two letters. At least in my case that make me unconfident and slows me down quite a lot.

I think that part of the fact is that the auto correct feature on most touch phones enables most mistakes to be corrected quickly looking like the typist made no mistakes

Nexus 5. Previously a Samsung Galaxy S3.

Nexus 5 is the best android phone out there by far, and beats the iphone anyday

thumbs up from me!

Alonso Fan wrote:Nexus 5 is the best android phone out there by far, and beats the iphone anyday

thumbs up from me!

I agree! Love it! I got it on launch day. (I'm a bit of a geek...)

That's great!

i would love a nexus 5, but i am so used to windows phone 8 at the moment that i might not be able to get used to it...

Alonso Fan wrote:I think that part of the fact is that the auto correct feature on most touch phones enables most mistakes to be corrected quickly looking like the typist made no mistakes

That is certainly quite possible. You have to remember that I live in a country whose language is not part of Android or iOS or BlackBerry's autocorrect feature.

Well, then that's impressive!

Hah. Indonesian is, sadly, not a language worldly enough to be recognised in other countries.

My iPhone has an Indonesian keyboard listed as an option. Maybe it was only added in the latest release?

Well, actually, my phone had it in the keyboard section

Pup wrote:My iPhone has an Indonesian keyboard listed as an option. Maybe it was only added in the latest release?

Yes but the autocorrect doesn't really do anything - it just becomes an alphabetical keyboard. Well that was my experience last time I used it, anyways