How is your typing now?

[eric12341]

Let's just say that after I use the keyboard on my 8X I feel like a downgrade when going back to using the one on my HD7 .

 

[robmif76]

Can anyone tell me how to type the + sign on the wp8 keyboard??

 

[travisel]

My ATIV S with a nice big 4.8" 720p display make's typing very good! Coming from WM6.5 LG IQ with 3.2" 480p display!

I would never go back!

 

[ttsoldier]

I always miss the space button and put b instead. sigh.

 

[taurgis]

For me the WP8 keyboard is a lot better than the one provided in WP7. Main thing I like about it, is that it is quite easy to switch between languages. I sometimes type messages in English and others in Dutch.

 

[Pedro Hicken]

Not too keen on it. I keep hitting the [,] instead of [space].

So,my,messages,appear,like,this.

 

[R S]

When I moved from WP7 to WP8 I was surprised at how poor the keyboard was. I was expecting an improvement, but it was much worse. After spotting a tip on these forums, I noticed that the problem was that MS didn't finish programming autocorrect for UK English. Every time I typed 'i' it would stay as 'i'. In WP7, it always autocorrected to 'I'. The fix was to change the keyboard in settings from UK English to US English. Now 'i' corrects to 'I'. Many features in WP8 were developed to suit a US audience, and outside the US there's only limited support throughout the OS. WP7 is much better at providing support outside the US.

 

[Nik Rolls]

I have to agree with the positive sentiment here. When I switched to my Lumia 920 (I came from an 800) I went from a keyboard where I could almost type without looking to one where I couldn't even type properly while looking. I put that partly down to the larger screen, and partly due to the new Word Flow system. For all its intelligence, it does start a little behind the WP7 keyboard in the first couple of days.

But boy does it catch up. After not even a week it learned the words I liked to type, how I hold my fingers, and of course I got a little accustomed to the larger screen. I can honestly say that this is the first phone where I can actually write entire messages without looking once, and only have to correct one or two words at the end. Or the alternative is that I can get through a whole email typing usually 2-3, sometimes only 1 letter of each word and finding that it's already suggesting the correct one. This is really one of my favourite features of the phone.

 

[WanderingTraveler]

My cat just leaped on to my laptop's keyboard.

Me? I'm typing just fine. It's easy to type around a fat cat that lies on all the keys on the keyboard.
If that doesn't work, type through the cat.

//offtopic

 

[Cormango]

I love the Windows Phone keyboard. I have a Lumia 920, iPhone 4, BlackBerry Z10, and a Galaxy Nexus. The Lumia wins for best keyboard. I love the suggestions and no more autocorrect failures!

 

[nwildcat]

Can anyone tell me how to type the + sign on the wp8 keyboard??

It's on the second screen of symbols. So, after pressing the "&123" to get to the numbers and symbols, hit the arrow (the one pointing right, on the left side of the keyboard) and there's a second screen of characters, including the + sign.


I love the WP8 keyboard on my 822. I expected it to be good, but it's far better than I could have hoped. Love how it learns what I tend to type even if it's not the norm. Much better than my iPhone typing experience, which was very good overall. It's as good as my experience using a physical keyboard but in many ways better since the next word suggestions are so accurate.

 

[ahardin]

I just went from a Focus to a Lumia 920 this past weekend, and there was a small difference. I was already kind of used to the step back, though, because after installing a couple of different 7.8 ROMs on my Focus it had to relearn, too. I will say I seem to have spent a lot less time in the frustration stage on the 920 then on the first 7.8 ROM I installed.

I also tried using my wife's iPod Touch last night. I wanted to throw it through a wall. I kept missing the top of the keyboard and moving the cursor to the middle of the email, and why does it have to take 5 seconds of clicking to select a single word?!

 

[robmif76]

It's on the second screen of symbols. So, after pressing the "&123" to get to the numbers and symbols, hit the arrow (the one pointing right, on the left side of the keyboard) and there's a second screen of characters, including the + sign.

aha!! thanks for saving me from loads of frustration!!

 

[eortizr]

I found it harder and less intuitive that my previous HTC One X+,GS3 and iPhone5. have to retype things a lot.

 

[ale2999]

Besides the , space fiasco it is great lol