Originally Posted by
Slai Its because the current keyboard in wp8 isn't that good. Its great for some things, for instance it writes English fairly well, but if Im mixing languages, which I do alot, it blows compared to Swiftkey.
And no option to have a numpad style keyboard is kind of weird. Such an easy thing to implement, and also what the OP was asking for.
I don't think that qualifies as "android style customization".
It's not like he's asking for each letter to be in a separate colour, all in different fonts and with the entire keyboard gathered solely on the right half of the screen or anything.
WP wants to keep it clean, that's fine. But some entry level customization would be a big improvement. Like being able to change the colour of your tiles individually, or impose a picture on your tiles on your current homescreen setup (mosaic style), or simply switching from qwerty to t9.
If you're writing messages using more than one language, how come you can't switch languages on the fly, via keyboard? I switch from English To French or English to Chinese (ex) fairly quickly. You can add a different language in addition to your regular keyboard. Am I missing something?