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Re: Keybee: a new keyboard layout designed specifically for touchscreen devices

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Post by morganvachon »

I'm confused by this statement:

> "Keybee is simple and clear because all the letters are always available (no hidden keys) and they all have the same size"

Checking my iPhone and my wife's Android phone, as well as an old Windows Phone I have in a drawer, all of the letters of the alphabet are available on the default board, none are hidden, and they are all the same size as each other on each respective keyboard.

At first I thought you might be talking about non-English keyboards, but looking at the Keybee board screenshots it's the same standard 26 English letters.

So, from that particular standpoint, how does Keybee offer a more complete set of English language characters than a device's default keyboard? This feels like either a bad translation or dubious marketing.

Re: Keybee: a new keyboard layout designed specifically for touchscreen devices

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Post by papaly1983 »

badsectoracula wrote: post #20

> Yes, all the greatest tech innovations are free. So Keybee is free and it will be always free because the keyboard is the basic human > Keybee was invented, developed and patented by Marco Papalia That is dishonest, it isn't free if it is encumbered by patents. Also i'm not sure how this works considering the author is from Italy and EU doesn't consider software patentable.

Free as free app and not pay app. Most keyboards are trial or you have to pay for use them. That's it.

Re: Keybee: a new keyboard layout designed specifically for touchscreen devices

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Post by papaly1983 »

nerdponx wrote: post #17
papaly1983 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's because Keybee is designed for one thumb typing. So it is correct to use mostly the right thumb. Happy new year..!!!

Do you have a flipped version for left-handed typing then?

No need to be flipped because the Keybee arrangement starts from the center of the keyboard. So it is optimized for left and right handed at the same time.

Re: Keybee: a new keyboard layout designed specifically for touchscreen devices

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Post by papaly1983 »

majikandy wrote: post #29

I really like the twipe straight up from '123' through '.' to ' ' but it feels like an implementation mistake not to consider that action a space after a dot which is supposed to return the keyboard to ABC. Instead it stays on 123.

There is a specific settings for dot-space combination. Check on Keybee settings.

Re: Keybee: a new keyboard layout designed specifically for touchscreen devices

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Post by juliushuijnk »

MessageEase keyboard works great for me. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.exideas.me...

Once you have it in your muscle memory, you can sort of type blindly and use symbols as quick as other letters. It doesn't look like KeyBee can improve my typing.

Re: Keybee: a new keyboard layout designed specifically for touchscreen devices

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Post by papaly1983 »

morganvachon wrote: post #31

I'm confused by this statement: > "Keybee is simple and clear because all the letters are always available (no hidden keys) and they all have the same size" Checking my iPhone and my wife's Android phone, as well as an old Windows Phone I have in a drawer, all of the letters of the alphabet are available on the default board, none are hidden, and they are all the same size as each other on each respective keyboard. A…

Check this link (slide number 9) for the answer: https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/keybee2013/keybee-she-smar...

Re: Keybee: a new keyboard layout designed specifically for touchscreen devices

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Post by papaly1983 »

cordite wrote: post #18
papaly1983 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's because Keybee is designed for one thumb typing. So it is correct to use mostly the right thumb. Happy new year..!!!

Having the keyboard centered on the ipad seems to suggest otherwise. Typed on Keybee.

You can move it to the left or right.

Re: Keybee: a new keyboard layout designed specifically for touchscreen devices

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Post by mark212 »

Steve44 wrote: post #16
infodroid wrote: post #5

Writing anything on modern touchscreen smartphones is so frustrating. I think the problem is that the touchscreen is always going to be an inferior interface to a physical button. I remember what it was like using PDAs and smartphones with actual physical keys. After a brief period of adjustment to a new device, I was soon typing without any mistakes. It was such a low-friction transfer of my thoughts to digital form…

I still use my Blackberry 9900 as my main phone and for work emails. They keyboard is fantastic and given the comparatively small size of the phone nothing comes close. I'm aware I'm on the losing team though as so many family & friends use WhatsApp now and I can't have that. They newer Android Blackberries are OK but their keyboard isn't as good as the 9900.

Many of my friends and family agree, but for anything over a sentence or two I just dictate. Voice recognition on my iPhone is fantastic these days and I hear Android is as good if not better, even without internet access. I think the world is moving past typing for shorter, informal input.

Re: Keybee: a new keyboard layout designed specifically for touchscreen devices

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Post by baby »

papaly1983 wrote: post #36
morganvachon wrote: post #31

I'm confused by this statement: > "Keybee is simple and clear because all the letters are always available (no hidden keys) and they all have the same size" Checking my iPhone and my wife's Android phone, as well as an old Windows Phone I have in a drawer, all of the letters of the alphabet are available on the default board, none are hidden, and they are all the same size as each other on each respective keyboard. A…

Check this link (slide number 9) for the answer: https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/keybee2013/keybee-she-smar...

I'm not sure how this answers GP's question.

Re: Keybee: a new keyboard layout designed specifically for touchscreen devices

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Post by morganvachon »

papaly1983 wrote: post #36
morganvachon wrote: post #31

I'm confused by this statement: > "Keybee is simple and clear because all the letters are always available (no hidden keys) and they all have the same size" Checking my iPhone and my wife's Android phone, as well as an old Windows Phone I have in a drawer, all of the letters of the alphabet are available on the default board, none are hidden, and they are all the same size as each other on each respective keyboard. A…

Check this link (slide number 9) for the answer: https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/keybee2013/keybee-she-smar...

That does absolutely nothing to answer my question. You show a QWERTY layout in the center, from a Windows Phone device, with every letter key the same size relative to one another as I said above.

Maybe I'm just not smart enough to see the difference from a slide with screenshots and captions that make dubious statements, but I'd appreciate if you would explain anyway.

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