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Smartphone Keyboard

I cannot type a single sentence without making a typo and I have been using a smartphone for 12 years. I miss Blackberry's keyboard. At the moment I even cannot use my natural keyboard layout with a fast and responsive keyboard. I type 3 times slower on my phone than on a computer keyboard.

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Last time I visited Tokyo I bought a sleek little folding Bluetooth keyboard that fits in my pocket but unfolds to nearly full size and types very comfortably. By just unfolding it, it pairs with my Android phone and the on-screen keyboard disappears. Folding it up triggers the phone keyboard to reappear. I take it with me whenever I expect to write anything about as long as this comment.

Being generally a luddite when it comes to devices, I'm honestly shocked at how seamless the pairing process is.

I don't know why they don't sell these in North America.

Care to compare / contrast your keyboard to the folding keyboards on Amazon?

https://www.amazon.com/Keyboard-Bluetooth-Geyes-Wireless-Sma...

https://www.amazon.com/Geyes-Ultra-thin-Kickstand-Universal-...

I very much agree. And the annoying thing for me is that I spend much of my (work) life sitting in front of a full-size keyboard, yet when I want to respond to a personal email on my phone it's actually quicker to type it on the PC keyboard, mail it to myself, and then copy-paste it into my personal email on my phone. It's horrific.

What I've longed for is a bluetooth dongle (or something) that I can just plug into the PC or piggyback on the keyboard's USB connector, and which will let me use the keyboard I already have to type on my phone.

Has anyone tried to improve upon the Dasher eye-tracking thing for text composition? Seems like there could be more ideas here that haven't really been explored.

http://www.inference.org.uk/dasher/DasherSummary2.html

I'm finding the touch keyboard too impractical for my purposes so I'm going back to BB, probably the Key2 LE. There are other keyboard phones on the market now that run Android but they also don't have the productivity toolset that I'm accustomed to and prefer.

With a little tuning SwiftKey is amazing. (For me I mostly just need to turn off the replace-words-automatically-using-insane-replacements option.)

Would a smarter auto-correct help?

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