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  • Color Me Badd Fan
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2009
    • 12519

    #1

    Virtual keyboard vs. physical keyboard

    I've gotten some conflicting stories about virtual keyboards (I don't have a phone with a virtual keyboard). Some are left wanting for a physical keyboard while other users get by fine with the virtual. Should someone with moderately big hands (not Rondo sized mind you, and I don't have sausage fingers), stay away from the virtual only keyboard?
    Part of it is based on academic grounds. Among major conferences, the Pac-10 is the best academically, largely because of Stanford, Cal and UCLA. “Colorado is on a par with Oregon,” he said. “Utah isn’t even in the picture.”
  • Scott R Nelson
    UofU/BYU mixed marriage
    • Apr 2010
    • 1508

    #2
    Originally posted by Color Me Badd Fan View Post
    I've gotten some conflicting stories about virtual keyboards (I don't have a phone with a virtual keyboard). Some are left wanting for a physical keyboard while other users get by fine with the virtual. Should someone with moderately big hands (not Rondo sized mind you, and I don't have sausage fingers), stay away from the virtual only keyboard?
    I stay away from anything that doesn't have a full keyboard that I can use as a touch typist without looking at it. But I'm hard-core anti-cell phone (or any other similar electronic device).

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    • creekster
      It is NOT a monkey!
      • Nov 2008
      • 22661

      #3
      virtual are easy, it just takes a while to get used to it. Even for me (and you have all seen evidence of my typing skills).
      PLesa excuse the tpyos.

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      • ERCougar
        Junior Member
        • Nov 2008
        • 10978

        #4
        There was an adjustment period, but I'd guess I that I'm faster now on a virtual keyboard. Especially with Swype (depending on the application--I turn Swype on and off depending on what I'm doing, but I can fly if it's standard conversation with Swype).
        At least the Big Ten went after a big-time addition in Nebraska; the Pac-10 wanted a game so badly, it added Utah
        -Berry Trammel, 12/3/10

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        • LA Ute
          Receiver of Memory
          • Nov 2008
          • 19512

          #5
          I love Swype. Like crekestre said, it takes a little time to master but once you do, it's very fast. I do have to type in some words (unusual names, e.g.) but Swype gets it right most of the time.
          “There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
          ― W.H. Auden


          "God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
          -- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons


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          --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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          • old_gregg
            scaly man fish
            • Nov 2009
            • 16915

            #6
            Originally posted by creekster View Post
            virtual are easy, it just takes a while to get used to it. Even for me (and you have all seen evidence of my typing skills).
            ah shucks you even took the time to spell everything out to prove it too. bless your heart.
            Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est.

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            • Jeff Lebowski
              Corporate lackey for Jesus
              • Nov 2008
              • 69544

              #7
              Swype is awesome.
              "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
              "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
              "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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