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Finger Friendly Texting?

Hello
does anyone know of a cab (preferably free) that I can add so when I text someone from my contact list or just text in general, there is a more finger friendly keyboard that comes up? It sucks having to use a stylus all the time if I want to use the touch screen.
or better yet, has anyone heard of a speech recognition software that lets you speak your message and have it converted to text?
Thanks
Adam

The Diamond Keyboard is quite nice, has 2 QWERTY's and a regular numeric keypad.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=390688

lol did you notice underneath the screen, if you slide very carefully, a whole real keyboard appears!!! ; )

drmc said:
lol did you notice underneath the screen, if you slide very carefully, a whole real keyboard appears!!! ; )
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lol, so true, cant get any easier.

Wow...as helpful as the last few posts were...
It sounds almost as if the OP wants a one-handed keyboard.
The Diamond keyboard is pretty nice, but my personal favorite is TouchPal.
http://www.cootek.com/
QWERTY and extended keyboard formats are included and it has a great amount of options and error correction. It even allows you to adjust the size on the screen.

Resco
Resco has a nice keyboard that is easy to use if you select the iphone keyboard. It's the easiest I have found anyway.
http://www.resco.net/pocketpc/keyboard/

wmg76 said:
Resco has a nice keyboard that is easy to use if you select the iphone keyboard. It's the easiest I have found anyway.
http://www.resco.net/pocketpc/keyboard/
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The Resco keyboard is freaking sweet...but not $20 sweet.

Use better keyboard on nexus one

Is there a way to use the better keyboard on the nexus? i installed it but still uses the default one

Yes, open the keyboard and hold the 123 keys till input method wording show. Then you can choose better keyboard as the default.

I installed Smart Keyboard Pro. To use I had to enable it in Settings > Language & Keyboard.
But I can only use it in html forms by long pressing a form field, selecting "input method" and than choosing it. The whole process makes smart keyboard pretty much useless...
Please, let me know If you can successfully enable better keyboard and overcome this problem somehow...
Regards,
Thiago Souza

jerrycycle said:
Yes, open the keyboard and hold the 123 keys till input method wording show. Then you can choose better keyboard as the default.
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Didn't know about this!!! Thanks!!!!

tsouza said:
I installed Smart Keyboard Pro. To use I had to enable it in Settings > Language & Keyboard.
But I can only use it in html forms by long pressing a form field, selecting "input method" and than choosing it. The whole process makes smart keyboard pretty much useless...
Please, let me know If you can successfully enable better keyboard and overcome this problem somehow...
Regards,
Thiago Souza
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Make sure you go to your keyboard option in the settings menu, make sure Smart Keyboard Pro is checked, then go to the keyboard hold down 123 and select it

jerrycycle said:
Yes, open the keyboard and hold the 123 keys till input method wording show. Then you can choose better keyboard as the default.
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Thank you it works great

Go Keyboard.

Yuh gotta try this - definite best keyboard i've used.
Info:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/go-keyboard/com.jb.gokeyboard
GO Keyboard can make your typing fast and smart. It is a must choice of Android mobile phone.
Main features:
1.Predict in multiple languages and keyboard layouts
2.Has accurate dictionaries
3.Smart to set skin and back ground
4.Import contacts
5.Import SMS To user dictionary
*Auto-memory and correct as you type
*Multi-point touch keyboard
**Start GO Keyboard
First: after download GO Keyboard, go into the “menu”, find out “language and keyboard” in settings, choose GO keyboard.
Second: long press any input box until popup a menu, choose “Input method”, choose “GO Keyboard”
**Gesture support:
Swipe left or right to switch layouts
Swipe down to close the keyboard
Supported languages:
English
German (DE)
French (FR)
Spanish (ES)
Italian (IT)
Portuguese (PT)
Russian（RU）
Swedish（SV）
Dutch(NL)
Norwegian(NO)
Romanian(RO)
Hungarian(HU)
Polish(PL)
Greece (EL)
Slovakia (SK)
Finland (FI)
Denmark (DA)
Bulgarian（BG）
Czech(CS)
PinYin（ZH）
Stroke(ZH)
Cangjie（ZH）
Simplified Cangjie（ZH）
Korean (KO)
Hebrew (HEB)
Arabic (AR)
There will be more multiple languages that we are going to predict.
More fascinating, more freedom is our destination.
If you have any question or suggestion, please contact us by email, thank you!
Keyword：
GO Keyboard keyboard gokeyboard Keyboard Input Method Editor input IME GO Touch GO Dev Team GO Launcher Ex GO SMS GO Weather gosms key gocontacts contact dictionary voice input
Recent changes:
Version：0.2.0
Updated contents：
1. Add Arab keyboard and dictionary.
2. Add Hebrew keyboard and dictionary.
3. Add Korean keyboard (two keyboard layout.)
4. Add Hong Kong Cangjie, Sucheng keyboard layout.
5. Add Taiwan Cangjie, Sucheng keyboard layout.
6. Add the operation of the trackball (Roll left and right to choose the candidate word, roll up and down to turn the page of candidate word).
We are always listening and respecting your feedback & advice
Content rating: Everyone
Latest version: 0.2.0 (for all Android versions)

The Beta worked for about 14 days, and then the phone started doing some random hangs. and after not being able to type anything in a SMS i changed the keyboard back, and my phone is now normal.
Cool keyboard, but might cause problems....

when the beta stops working you might want to try Perfect Keyboard, and Smart keyboard, they have similar options, except importing SMS into dictionary.

Thanks for it
I will try and see
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i can absolutely recommend swiftkey. try it guys.

This looks nice. Will try it out...

Go Keyboard problems
1. I use the speech recognition a lot. When I set the Voice Key to 'On main keyboard' I loose the Comma key.
Is there any way I can get both the voice key and the comma key on the main screen?
2. When I use the voice recognition (the Voice Recognition is great, 90% or better) but if I try to edit the phrase it shows because a letter is incorrect. I put the cursor to the right of the letter and hit backspace or space and it pastes the whole phrase in again in the middle of the phrase I am trying to edit. Any idea how to avoid this?
I really like Go Keyboard, but these 2 things are driving me nuts.
Regards,
Mark

I cant seem to be getting the T9 on the messaging. As soon as i click on the msg body , the t9 button just disaapears.. it appears on when I am adding a contact name... any clue on how to fix this ?

How does it compare to Swype?

[Q] Using S-Pen in a browser?

Can I use S-pen to write URL or search terms in Google, for example?

Only if you enable handwriting recognition in the stock keyboard. You can't write directly in the address or search bar if that's what you mean.
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Only if you enable handwriting recognition in the stock keyboard. You can't write directly in the address or search bar if that's what you mean.
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Thanks..I wonder if in ICS handwriting will be able to do that? (write directly on the page.)

The title of this thread made me think... the S-pen could allow the use of a proper hover and click UI if a browser supported it. How great would that be? I know Opera supports this with trackballs/pads and mice... anyway just thinking out loud.

or you can
i don't have handwriting whenever pen is detected enabled on my phone. but i still use pen in search and any where keypad can be used. every time the stock keyboard is displayed, it has a key that has a capital T with a little pen beside it. just click that and the handwriting pad will pop up. to return to keypad there is a icon of a keyboard on the top row of that window to return to keypad.

The T option is that with using the Default Samsung keyboard?

Keyboard input method "swipe" is not working

Since i've updated to android MM , swipe as an input method is not working on my keyboard.
Did samsung remove that feature in MM update?
Please help me guys , its so boring without swipe

shivamtarzan said:
Since i've updated to android MM , swipe as an input method is not working on my keyboard.
Did samsung remove that feature in MM update?
Please help me guys , its so boring without swipe
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I'm still running Lollipop, however, maybe the the swipe option isn't selected.
In Settings-- Language and Input-- Samsung Keyboard-- Keyboard Swipe, then select 'continuous input'

option for turning on the continuous input and swipe is not showing here. so i am unable to do it

shivamtarzan said:
Since i've updated to android MM , swipe as an input method is not working on my keyboard.
Did samsung remove that feature in MM update?
Please help me guys , its so boring without swipe
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hi,
i am on Marshmallow and mostly use SwiftKey and other keyboards
Anyway tested Samsung keyboard,
option to swipe on keyboard is present in settings. (Screenshot)
Tested swipe and working fine.
Good luck

this is the screen shot on my phone, as seen here there is no option for doing the swipe mode.
willcor said:
hi,
i am on Marshmallow and mostly use SwiftKey and other keyboards
Anyway tested Samsung keyboard,
option to swipe on keyboard is present in settings. (Screenshot)
Tested swipe and working fine.
Good luck
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My brother picked up the S7 on US Cellular and he says Samsung's swipe is not a choice under keyboard settings. I think it's a regional thing like being able to have punctuation marks on the main keyboard for long press.