Everyday I miss my blackberries - people say autocorrect is sogood nowadays but I have never seen it. Typing on a screen consisntely results inerrosraiwhenevrt I’m texting someone. I always slid out the keyboard on my Priv when I had something important or precise to type out.

This paragraph was typed relying solely on my autocorrect to fix any mistakes .

  • sudo_shinespark@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is unpopular? I guess I’m unpopular with you. Buttons are absolutely indiscriminately superior to touchscreens for most uses. Autocorrect is the bane of my existence. I think touchscreens only have the edge as far as the physical space they (dynamically) require

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      1 year ago

      I think as with reddit, unpopular opinions are usually actually popular at least within a demographic, if not generally. Or else you’d never see them upvoted.

    • No feedback and poor sensitivity lead to more typos, and autocorrect has a habit of “correcting” words spelled correctly into a different word that doesn’t even fit the context and doesn’t even work at all on extremely mistyped words.

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    1 year ago

    100%. I used to occasionally do software development over SSH with a phone with sliding keyboard when I was out and about without a laptop, the keys were just big enough not to be uncomfortable. It was great to type into a smartphone like a desktop computer, and some programs could use the keyboard for functionality. Mobile experience has become more bland and cluttered with virtual keyboards/buttons/‘joysticks’ taking up screen real-estate. At the very least, it’s nice that with an adapter many USB keyboards can work with an Android device.

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    1 year ago

    I definitely typed faster on my phones with physical keyboards. No need for autocorrect when tactile sensation tells you where your fingers are at. :)

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    1 year ago

    I used to be able to text in my pockets during class with ~95% accuracy just from feel on those old slide phones. Sure they were inconvenient, but damn the tactile feel was so much better