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| Thread ID: 135265 | 2013-10-14 01:47:00 | Cellphone QWERTY keyboard question | Billy T (70) | PC World Chat |
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| 1356015 | 2013-10-14 01:47:00 | Hi Team I have a Samsung Galaxy S5360T touchphone and find it very slow when composing texts. The qwerty keypad is so small that my fingertip hides the target (wanted letter) and a fraction off-center makes for a high error rate. Where can I go to buy a generic stylus so that I can improve my accuracy and speed up the process? I assume it is just a 'conductive pad on a stick' since that is the only property my finger provides, though unlike a stylus, a finger can be quite expressive when pointed in certain directions other than down. :D I could make one with a bit of conductive (antistatic) foam, which I've trialed and it does work ok on the screen, but a commercial item would be much tidier and there must be a good market for them, they would be real easy to lose! Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1356016 | 2013-10-14 01:58:00 | Have you tried a decent keyboard like Swiftkey? Or a keyboard that supports swype? | wratterus (105) | ||
| 1356017 | 2013-10-14 01:58:00 | There's a number of them you can grab any old sucker off TradeMe. To be honest, I'd suggest getting a phone with a larger screen. Means you don't have to worry about losing the stylus, plus it opens the way for other things like the Trace Keyboard that's built into the newer versions of Android. It'll field weird as anything for the first couple of days, but I promise you, after 5-7 days of using it, you'll feel right and home and would never wanna go back to something smaller like your current one. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1356018 | 2013-10-14 02:12:00 | Any computer/technology shop should have stylus' available, you can get them for about $10, or can spend heaps if you want to for some reason. That said, a 3" low-res touch screen is about the most awful way to type even with a stylus :P |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1356019 | 2013-10-14 03:15:00 | Even on my S3 I sometimes feel like I need one. I have a tendency to constantly be slighty to the right of letters on the left side of the screen so my "a"s are forever coming out as "s". And I hate swype quite a lot, looks great when other people use it but I just don't know where the letters are well enough to do it without pausing and that mucks it up. Let us know if you find a good cheap one somewhere, maybe it's something I could add to my keyring. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1356020 | 2013-10-14 03:43:00 | Motorola still do a android phone with slide out keyboard, | plod (107) | ||
| 1356021 | 2013-10-14 04:10:00 | Where can I go to buy a generic stylusAny mobile phone store, and even The Warehouse sell them - they cost around 15 bucks. | Greg (193) | ||
| 1356022 | 2013-10-14 06:16:00 | My sympathies Billy, understand your frustration completely. I have a Motorola Defy Mini. Initially I bought a stylus from TM but then tried Swype - and that works well enough for me. 90% accurate and sometimes I let wrong words go just to mess with folks. :D | Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 1356023 | 2013-10-14 08:00:00 | I am quite happy with the Samsung as it stands, apart from the keyboard, although I much prefer it to the old 'sequential' keyboard style. I very rarely use my phone because I am either in my office beside the land line, mobile in my car so can't answer, or on clients' premises and I always turn it off at their door. I'm not exactly sure sure how you'd add an external keyboard, I suppose it would be wireless, but that would be one more thing to carry so I think the stylus will meet my requirements nicely thanks. Cheers Billy 8-{) PS I have no idea what Swype is, I'll go take a look! |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1356024 | 2013-10-14 10:21:00 | Bluetooth for keyboards works, any of the Logitech / Microsoft ones. What do you mean by "Sequential" keyboard? |
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