I used to miss a physical keyboard until the swipey keyboards came in. Have you tried swipe-typing? Windows Phone has it, and so do some Android devices, and I think iPhone added it recently too.
It seems dumb and impossible, but when you actually try typing that way it is a revelation (well, it was for me!). I'm not exaggerating when I say that within minutes of first typing this way on my Lumia phone I was typing faster than I ever did on my old Droid keyboard.
Give it a try if your phone has it (even if your phone doesn't have it there is probably a 3rd party app...I believe one is called Swype).
The downside of swiping is that the algorithm is terrible with proper nouns and any non-real words, though that's a software limitation that can be overcome.
I do actually use Swype typing. :'( It's certainly 1,000% better than pressing each key, but it still gives sooo many errors. Especially when trying to swype a word that has a lot of characters on one line.
non-real words
Luckily, it seems Sumsung's learns words. Now my problem is I have a million "Yay," "Yaaay," "Yaaaaaaaay," and "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY" in my dictionary. :P
I used to miss a physical keyboard until the swipey keyboards came in. Have you tried swipe-typing? Windows Phone has it, and so do some Android devices, and I think iPhone added it recently too.
It seems dumb and impossible, but when you actually try typing that way it is a revelation (well, it was for me!). I'm not exaggerating when I say that within minutes of first typing this way on my Lumia phone I was typing faster than I ever did on my old Droid keyboard.
Give it a try if your phone has it (even if your phone doesn't have it there is probably a 3rd party app...I believe one is called Swype).
The downside of swiping is that the algorithm is terrible with proper nouns and any non-real words, though that's a software limitation that can be overcome.
I do actually use Swype typing. :'( It's certainly 1,000% better than pressing each key, but it still gives sooo many errors. Especially when trying to swype a word that has a lot of characters on one line.
Luckily, it seems Sumsung's learns words. Now my problem is I have a million "Yay," "Yaaay," "Yaaaaaaaay," and "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY" in my dictionary. :P