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OK, so Google want to improve their handwriting recognition. Fine. But from a users point of view this just tells me one thing:

- Using an on-screen keyboard is such a pain for people that Google changed their HOMEPAGE to accommodate this.

Why does this irritate me?

1) None of the latest generation of smartphones are coming out with a hardware keyboard. The best are always keyboardless.

2) Stylus-based input, which is the other extremely fast form of text entry, has all but died out (I know some products still exist - but it was essentially dead when capacitive screens won out).

Hence, we've gone backwards from 10 years ago. It was faster for me to send a text/email from my phone 10 years ago then it is today. That is hugely disappointing.




Yes, this exactly. I desperately want to move from my Blackberry to an android phone but all the best phones seem keyboard-less. Typing on a touch screen is a major annoyance for anything more than typing a search string or sms.


Go horizontal and use two thumbs. You get pretty quick. There are likely other techniques.




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