point of hardware keyboard?

[soccerballtux]

I said #3 and Other:

Other:
Without a physical keyboard, I fat finger everywhere. Swiftkey actually fixes much of this (so much so that for short messages, I use the on-screen keyboard), but if I'm texting a lot or writing a long message, the keyboard is a must.


And don't even get me started about trying to use the terminal w/ the on-screen keyboard. Seriously? One of the sweetest things about these phones and tablets are that they are super-mobile, and relatively powerful. It seems like a waste to not have a decent input device coupled with that...

Disblamer:I also always rocked the QWERTY dumbphones too...

oh yeah terminal that's a good point.

 

[soccerballtux]

Honestly, I think for the majority of the people that are adamantly for hardware keyboards, if they just take the time to get used to a software keyboard, they'd see that the cons of a hardware keyboard outweigh the pros.

That's not to say that some people cannot live without hardware keyboards. There are people that still need the hardware keyboard. But I think the norm will start moving more towards software keyboards than hardware keyboards.

main beef with OSK is inaccurate displays. Motorola's capacitive touch isn't accurate enough. There are regions where you simply can't press, and if you do the touch will register a little above or a little below (or a little to the right of/left of) your actual keypress. It's less of an issue on larger screens like their Bionic or Razr but the issue is still there and makes the phones feel like crap and very frustrating to use.

*oh and that's not mentioning trying to get the cursor to be in just the right place so that you can select the right portion of text (hyperlink for example to send to a friend or paste into a browser) to copy/paste or to edit/remove a word or part of a word. Absurdly annoying.