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Ikhide R. Ikheloa (popularly called Pa Ikhide) is a blogger, ex-newspaper columnist, social and literary critic. His judgement on modern smartphones as tools for writing? Here:
I do miss my old BB. I miss the tactile feel of the keys and its disciplined functionality. These new smartphones can't pound me an essay…
— Lord of the Gourds (@ikhide) March 2, 2014
Do you do extensive writing on your smartphone? Do you agree or disagree with him?
Founder of MobilityArena. Yomi’s journey in mobile started in 2001. Besides obsessing over mobile phones, he also started creating WAP sites (early mobile-friendly websites created with WML). He began writing about phones in 2004 and has been at it since then. He has owned over 200 devices, from Symbian, Palm, PocketPC/Windows Mobile, BlackBerry/BB10, webOS, Windows Phone, Firefox, Ubuntu Touch, to Android, iOS, and KaiOS operating systems.
Perhaps Pa Ikhide has not tried out the combo of a Phablet and a wondrous third party keyboard app like SwiftKey… on android.
But first, a mindshift must happen.
You love tapping out your characters, get a fairly big (touch) screened device, install SwiftKey, and you are rolling..
If you wanna give swiping a spin instead, try Google Keyboard or Swype, and your ringtone would change.
Yes, tapping away, on a touchscreen, is the real Mccoy..
Even BlackBerry agrees.
I do disagree with him..I have done a lot of typing with my touchscreen smartphone. although it takes a while to get used to but after a while it just feels natural
Extensive typing? maybe. Won’t go as far as classifying it as useless though
I’ve not used any physical QWERTY smartphones keyboard for any appreciable length of time but I must say that when I tried typing on a BlackBerry device after already getting used to touchscreen input via swiping, it felt good but i just couldn’t see how I it could make me a better typist on a smartphone.
I started with tap-typing on a touchscreen smartphone but never got going and I was always going back to the keypad version of software keyboard that’s included on my phone until I discovered gesture input via Touchpal and I never looked back ever since. I’m a whole lot happier with touchscreen keyboard than physical one on modern smartphones.
Last year I needed to upgrade my Nokia E5, I had to settle for a Nokia E6. God knows cost is not an issue for me but I can’t type on a touch screen phone. I have tried, believe me. I have been waiting for a windows qwerty phone for nearly a year now to no avail. The bad news is that this one is slowly packing up. With all these talk about innovation in the mobile industry I wonder why nobody wants to just give this a try.
All phone look the same now and it’s annoying for some of us.