Hirdetés
Typing
It’s evident that the most interesting part of the phone is typing. This half-QWERTY solution is not very wide-spread on smartphones, so I could hardly wait to start getting used to it. Yeah, it really needs some time to get used to the layout. It’s a bit hard to change from a classical phone keypad, we keep hitting the keys as we used to and always forget that this is a QWERTY, so the letters are elsewhere.
Of course such a solution can work nicely if there is a refined prediction system in the background, and Nokia did all he could in order to make it work. Writing in English is rather easy, but we could be in trouble when using a different language, due to the different rules. Fortunately the words we type are automatically added to the dictionary and there is a word completion feature as well, this displays in a dim color the word the software thinks we want to type, so typing can speed up a lot.
If we choose to disable word prediction, it takes even more to get used to the keyboard. Two letters on a key, sometimes only one, it would take weeks to type at a normal speed. I know it’s not authoritative at all, but I did an experiment: I’ve tried to type an English sentence with prediction turned off on E55 and on a 2700 classic, and even after three days, it took at least twice as much to finish with the sentence on E55 than it took on the classical keypad. Let’s take a look at a short video about this:
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