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Best phone for one handed texting?
I currently use a Nokia 6700 and love it but my contract is up. I'm wondering if there are any newer phones that you can still text while holding in one hand (i.e. with your thumb).
The touchscreen phones all seem too wide to comfortably reach the keys with your thumb
The touchscreen phones all seem too wide to comfortably reach the keys with your thumb
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I have a HTC Desire and I installed Swype. It makes it very easy to compose texts by just using your thumb, although it does take a day or so to get used to it. (I can Swype a text in half the time it takes to do so using the normal input method)
Swype is available for most Android phones...If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands
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I use a 5800 (have a newer phone, but prefer the Nokia!) and that is easy to text with one (quite little) hand.Gone ... or have I?0
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Is it still easy to press keys by accident with swype? That's what's put me off touch screen phones before.0
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The touchscreen phones all seem too wide to comfortably reach the keys with your thumbI suspect a few generations down we'll have evolved massive thumbs, or something.
On a serious note, go to http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/mobiles/phone-finder and select "QWERTY keyboard" checkbox.
Re 'swype', it's a totally new concept. Search the net for demonstrations and explanations.0 -
Is it still easy to press keys by accident with swype? That's what's put me off touch screen phones before.
You don't tap out the letters as you do with a conventional input system. You swipe your thumb over the letters to make the word, so less chance of pressing something wrong...
Have a look at it here: http://swypeinc.com/product.htmlIf it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands
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On a serious note, go to http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/mobiles/phone-finder and select "QWERTY keyboard" checkbox.
If possible I'd prefer a non QWERTY as I'm used to a Nokia layout and predictive text.
I have a horrible feeling I've become a Luddite 0
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