Windows Phone Keyboard Design is a major Issue

[TheDarKnight]

WP keyboards are amazing. You just need to get used to it. I find it extremely easier to type on my WP comparing to my brother's Samsung galaxy and my friends iPhones. Auto correct is also much much better and way accurate.

 

[MrX365]

Ive always thought the WP keyboard was streets ahead of the others. Finding the 8X a bit hard to adapt to, keep hitting the emoticon key instead of the comma - think its the difference in size between the width of the Titan and 8X.

 

[Wevenhuis]

I love the WP7.5 keyboard on my HTC Titan I. It works quite well. The only issues I'm encountering is a dedicated number pad option and mispressing i and o. Oh, and perhaps an improvement can be made on autocorrect, sometimes a word is corrected wrongly.

 

[Daniel Ratcliffe]

I am, in fact serious. I can't remember where I read it, as it was over a year ago... Trying to find the link now, sadly, would be needle in haystack.

Also, the thud made me think sarcasm but I assumed genuine surprise based on the lack of /s or :/.

Yes, it was indeed genuine surprise. When I use *thud* I am flabbergasted of something I was not aware of. Or something went epically wrong.

 

[Joshua Jackson]

It seems many people prefer WP keyboard thanks to its auto-correct feature. Which means you can make typo but the OS correct it fine.
This is two separate issues to me. How about a keyboard designed so well that we make minimum typo, and those seldom chances that we do the OS correct the typo just fine?

I make many more mistakes with my 4.3" WP8 than my 3.7" WM6.5 with Swype.
I will agree that the autocorrect is pretty good.
I'd just rather not have to use it, so much.
JJ

 

[iamtim]

It's a major issue because you don't like the keyboard?

Well, I prefer the WP8 keyboard to the keyboard on both the iPhone 4 and the Samsung Captivate I had. I declare it NOT a major issue.

 

[Joshua Jackson]

One thing that I thought was odd...
We have the ability to voice dictate with search, text, and e-mail, but not other text boxes.
I thought dictation was a function of the keyboard and not the operating system.
It would be nice for it to be a part of the keyboard, so that it works everywhere the keyboard works.
JJ

 

[eastbayrae]

There's nothing wrong with the kb. The disappearance at times, was fixed. It works great for me! Fix the blasted music app!

 

[jsk0703]

Coming from an HTC Thunderbolt, I love the WP8 keyboard. Works really well for me. My only wish is that I want to be able to store new words in the dictionary but that's a minor thing.

 

[rider2040]

I have actually found that the WP keyboard on my 920 is far superior to the keyboard on my iPhone 3gs. No comparison.

 

[happynoodleboy]

Coming from an HTC Thunderbolt, I love the WP8 keyboard. Works really well for me. My only wish is that I want to be able to store new words in the dictionary but that's a minor thing.

You can add words to your ddictionary. Tap the word and above the keyboard where it gives suggestions it'll have what you typed with a plus next to it. Tap that and the word is added.

 

[quinndupont]

I,keep,hitting,the,damn,comma. Seriously, about every tenth space is a comma. I'm coming from Android & iPhone, so perhaps it will improve.

 

[HeyCori]

Sorry, no problems over here. IMO, a much better typing experience than any of the older iPhones.

 

[TMavC5]

I love WP8 keyboard and its predictive words. Type few letters for the word, the predictive words appeared then tap and your done. What, i like it much better than my iPhone 4.

 

[odin09]

It took me about a week to get used to coming from a physical keyboard. Now I love it. My wife just got an iPhone 5 and I can't stand the keyboard. I love that WP shows lower case when I'm using lowercase.

 

[Joshua Jackson]

It took me about a week to get used to coming from a physical keyboard. Now I love it. My wife just got an iPhone 5 and I can't stand the keyboard. I love that WP shows lower case when I'm using lowercase.

Amen to that.
JJ

 

[shinygerbil]

The keyboard is fantastic. Has been since WP7. I could type at full speed on my HD7 and be confident that autocorrect would work when I needed it; the only issue was punctuation automatically having a space after an autocorrected word. Now they've fixed that in WP8, the keyboard is even better.

It took me about a week to get up to full speed on the slimmer 8X, but now I type just as fast as before - if not faster.


Well, all except for one niggle..........WP8 KEYBOARD Y U NO CAPITALISE MY 'I' EVER EVER?! I'm fed up with typing an i and having it not capitalised. In fact, in that last sentence (and this one too) i had to go back and force the i to be lowercase because IE10 in W8 autocapitalises it. MICROSOFT, NO! I AM A PERSON WHO ACTUALLY WANTS TO USE CORRECT GRAMMAR ON OCCASION. DON'T PUNISH ME

 

[gmfeld]

I've never typed on a iPhone or Android (I go all the way back to the first AT&T Windows Mobile phones), but I must say that i"m having a much harder time typing on my 8X than I had on my Titan. Which I attribute (right or wrong?) to the smaller screen size of the 8X. I can't tell you how many times I've hit the "speak" button when typing an email, and I'm over 2 weeks with my 8X.

 

[erasure25]

Wasn't there some talk about WP8 having a "thumb-friendly" keyboard option? It was in the shape of a quarter circle or something... whatever happened to that?
http://cdn-static.zdnet.com/i/story/70/00/000115/02-07-2012-12-43-34.png

 

[hopmedic]

I've noticed that the Windows Phone keyboard has only changed slightly from Windows Phone 7... What a BLESSING. There wasn't much to improve upon, and I still feel the same. Best keyboard there is.