Pre-smartphone plenty of people touch typed text messages. No need to be staring at the screen. Stealth messages could be sent without taking the phone out of your pocket.
Physical keyboards probably appear to a significant section of people who would like to use their phone as a productivity device. Surely if swipe typing is so good it would be an option in Windows 10?
I agree on the price but I am still considering purchasing this phone.
Remember when phones were predictable enough that you could remember where everything was and navigate anywhere through memory alone?
Nowadays you need to be very skillful to even open the app you meant to, let alone press the right keys on a keyboard.
Heck, sometimes between all of notifications, video overlays, recommendations, ads, frequent redesigns, non-deterministic search results and whatnot, you might congratulate yourself for being able to do the thing you meant to at all!
(And no, I don't have any physical, vision or mental impairment, and I have grown up with technology)
That said, autocorrect only works for English text. If I’m trying to, say, type a shell command into an SSH session, I do have to slow down quite a bit.
Does everyone else swipe type now?
I'm quite curious about your `weird grip'; 80-90 wpm on a touchscreen sounds absurdly fast.
Though, to measure that I had to make my own typing test, because after trying multiple websites and native apps, I couldn’t find any tests that didn’t disable autocorrect. Accuracy without autocorrect may be interesting to measure, but in real-world typing, I intentionally sacrifice accuracy for speed and let autocorrect pick up the slack. A test of practical typing speed should take that into account.
If anyone else wants to try, here is my very barebones test:
My left hand has the middle finger on the side edge, thumb on the bottom edge. The rest of the fingers hang.
My right hand supports the back of the phone with 3 fingers, pointer on the side edge and the thumb types.
Hope they helps describe it. My family and friends make fun of how fast and loud I type and my weird grip, but I do take pride in my speed :)