ShapeWriter
I have fat fingers. I’m not good at typing on touch screens.
This app, which you have probably seen on that Samsung Omnia 2 commercial, has potentially changed that. I just started using it so I need to get used to it somewhat, but I am already typing full sentences in less than half the time it took me using the traditional input method.
I know there are a lot of iPhone users here and I’m not sure if Apple is giving you guys the option to use this, but if they are I highly suggest checking it out.
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So you can write a text in the same amount of time and effort it might take to write a note? There are times when I think technology mimicking life is funny. This is one of those cases.
Had I a smarter phone, I’d probably use this.
I’m convinced this will slow you down. The iPhone has tech to deal with fat fingers. It takes sort of the average of the total area of you finger and puts a point at the center. Furthermore, if you put your thumb down and the wrong letter pops up you can slide your finger over before letting go and getting the right letter.
Drawing a shape for a word, though, seems like it would take far longer than the 4-6 taps of my two thumbs. Especially when you’re trying to spell words like sewed or dewers or pollok. How’s that shape gonna work out?
John said:The iPhone has tech to deal with fat fingers.
John said:Drawing a shape for a word, though, seems like it would take far longer than the 4-6 taps of my two thumbs. Especially when you’re trying to spell words like sewed or dewers or pollok. How’s that shape gonna work out?
Well, I’m not sure if you’re joking or not, but what the fuck is a dewers or a pollok, and why the fuck would I ever need to text those words.
I’m not going to defend this like crazy because I haven’t fully evaluated it yet. It might be less useful on the iPhone than on Android because admittedly the iPhone keyboard is better than the one on my Hero. But, I can tell you already that this thing is helping ME type faster and I was a pretty big skeptic going in.
You should try it just for shits and giggles at least.
Jay said:
Well, I’m not sure if you’re joking or not, but what the fuck is a dewers or a pollok, and why the fuck would I ever need to text those words.
You love scotch and fish dinners but suck at spelling?
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dewer
And Pollok should have been Pollock.
Sammy said:You love scotch and fish dinners but suck at spelling?
Did you hear the bad news about the pollok hockey team? They all drowned during spring training.
John said:
From merriamwebster.com:
dewer
Dewer, it turns out, isn’t in the free Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, where you just searched.
However, it is available in our premium Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary. To see that definition in the Unabridged Dictionary, start your free trial now.
What’s the difference between these two dictionaries? Our free online version contains America’s best-selling and best-loved dictionary – over 225,000 definitions. The Unabridged Dictionary, perhaps the finest in the world, contains over 470,000 definitions.
It seems as though only “the finest” will suit Hutch.
John said:And Pollok should have been Pollock.
ShapeWriter is all over “Pollock”.
Crap.
I am bad at spelling.
ok, FEEDER, then. or maybe weeded. or reweeded. or sawed.