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Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?

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Post by smcl »

awinter-py wrote: post #232
smcl wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I loved my blackberry's keyboard, but I adjusted to iOS on-screen keyboard (starting circa the iPhone 4S) pretty well. Last couple of years though iOS autocorrect has started to be extremely aggressive and frequently very wrong (incorrectly changing were->we're, ill->i'll for example. and today changing "Torvalds" to "Torshavn" or something when I was talking about Linus and not the Faroes). If someone has a nice pho…

yes all the ML based ones feel like they're consistently adjusting to everyone in the world at once I can learn to use a consistent kb, but I can't learn a moving target

Ahhhhh they added ML to the iOS keyboard input? No wonder it's behaving weirdly

Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?

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Post by trangus_1985 »

skinnymuch wrote: post #168
trangus_1985 wrote: post #5

I vastly prefer on screen keyboards. I'm faster with them, it requires a lighter touch, and the auto correct is good enough. What I miss about blackberries is that they were messaging devices, with OS level integrations around messaging that went beyond the notification system of today. For 90% of messages i send, i could simply use a generic sms style interface through a system-wide messaging app, only jumping into…

Which message services are you referring to? The most popular modern messaging apps wouldn’t work with the single interface nowadays. FBM, WhatsApp’s. I don’t know if third party integrations would be allowed so other apps could get integrated.

> modern messaging apps wouldn’t work with the single interface nowadays

The notification system on my phone already lets me reply. All I need is to be able to see text, emoji reactions, and a thumbnail of any photos. It's extremely reasonable for any advanced features to require me clicking the message and opening it in the app.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?

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Post by novok »

sneak wrote: post #162

For me it was the ios keyboard circa ios5 or 6. I was soooo fast on that thing. It got worse for a while and now the current ios keyboard is about 80-90% as good. This comment presumes your question is primarily focused on text input.

iOS 7 ruined a lot of good things about iOS in general.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?

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Post by zepearl »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #37
dddw wrote: post #36

Yes I miss it everyday, I feel so clumsy typing on a piece of glass, and make soo many typos. I could type BLIND without typos whole emails while maintaining a casual conversation (much to the annoyance of my girlfriend). There are a lot of BlackBerry-stans still on crackberry.com holding out on older and newer BlackBerry phoned (key2 being the latest). Really loved my Q10 with bb10os and my Keyone running Android! S…

I really am surprised that with of all models of Android phones in the world, no one is making one with a keyboard. Even if it was a niche product, you'd think there would be an audience...

Same here - I absolutely don't understand how major manufacturers can completely ignore this market niche.

With all existing Android users, even if just 0.1% would like to have a keyboard you would still have a business ( https://www.businessofapps.com/data/android-statistics/ - assuming that only half of those 2.8 billion android users use a mobile phone and not a tablet or something else, that would still give you a market of 140M potential customers?)

Maybe it's about patents (keyboard tech)? And/or maybe Android users are really stingy (I would pay +50$ for an integrated keyboard, maybe most would not)?

Don't know, big mistery.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?

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Post by stereoradonc »

Completely agree. I was on to them around 2007-8 and embraced them completely. My first device was Bold with BIS. Subsequently, I realised BES was better and experimented with that. It was a superior experience to the present devices. The keyboard was my second brain. The devices made me super fast, efficient and useful.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

winternett wrote: post #225
vincentmarle wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> autocorrect has started to be extremely aggressive and frequently very wrong First thing I do when setting up a new phone is turning off auto correct and auto capitalization. Yes, I still make mistakes, but I prefer becoming quite handy at using my backspace button than having to fight the auto correct all damn time.

Thank goodness it is not just me noticing that spell check and typing functionality is degrading! I have also noticed that touch sensitivity has increased and decreased based on which app I am using. I used to never click on ads on Twitter, but now mistake clicks happen frequently (as an example). I miss the BlackBerry days a lot, security and trustworthiness with the company was paramount as well and now that's all…

> I have also noticed that touch sensitivity has increased and decreased based on which app I am using.

...no way, really?! Could any iOS developers chime in on whether their are actually ways for apps to control this?

Re: Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?

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Post by oplante »

albru123 wrote: post #146
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #90

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Do you use Swiftkey-like typing on your keyboard? On my Android phone I find I can type so fast with it, and I barely have to look at the keyboard.

I used Swiftkey for a few years and thought it couldn't get better... until I found Fleksy. The autocompletion is just superb and nowhere near anything I tried before. It's made for typing without looking or worrying about hitting the right keys, so if you're not really comfortable with Swiftkey-like typing, you might wanna give it a try.

Thanks for supporting Fleksy !
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