Anyone else love thr stock Froyo keyboard?

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Hey guys,
I was wondering if anyone else really liked the new stock IME included in Froyo.

I tried swype, SwiftKeys and the Htc IME, but I just keep coming back to the stock froyo keyboard.

With the new two rows of pop-up keys and the ease of switching languages, I find it to be the easiest to use. Definitely more intelligent than the iPhone keyboard.

Only problem I have when compared to typing on the iPhone is that it will miss keys if I type too fast, but all the ime I've tried do that. It's likely more of a touchscreen issue there.

Just curious if other people were enjoying it as well.

The one problem I have is the fact that it doesn't support the Canadian French keyboard layout. Typing in azerty is just terrible! Lots of bug reports in to Google on that point, but no movement yet.

if swype didn't cut it I really don't know what will, smart keyboard is really good and fast try it if you haven't already.

and to answer your question, I honestly loath it. but you see that's the beauty of android, if you don't like anything just change it lol.

I keep coming back to it also, does exactly what I want it too and is easy to use, used swype on my old windows mobile phone but see no need for it here. the text predicition means I rarely type near the full word.

In portrait mode I use swype, while in landscape mode I use the stock keyboard. Does anyone know any light half-qwerty keyboard for portrait use? I tried HTC_IME but it had that little bug that wouldn't register the word "IF". I wonder if it still exists in the latest version. Also is there an original HTC_IME lying around somewhere? I want something light and not as heavy as the modded one.

Tried Swype once.. not for me.
Been on stock ever since coz it's allright...

I can't get away from the HTC IME keyboard cause it has T9 standard keypad, and I'm just so much faster typing on that.

Tried Swype a while ago. But since FroYo I've been very happy with stock...Especially in landscape.

Originally Posted by hadge

Hey guys,
I was wondering if anyone else really liked the new stock IME included in Froyo.

I tried swype, SwiftKeys and the Htc IME, but I just keep coming back to the stock froyo keyboard.

With the new two rows of pop-up keys and the ease of switching languages, I find it to be the easiest to use. Definitely more intelligent than the iPhone keyboard.

Only problem I have when compared to typing on the iPhone is that it will miss keys if I type too fast, but all the ime I've tried do that. It's likely more of a touchscreen issue there.

Just curious if other people were enjoying it as well.

The one problem I have is the fact that it doesn't support the Canadian French keyboard layout. Typing in azerty is just terrible! Lots of bug reports in to Google on that point, but no movement yet.

I like it. I use HTC ime too but I use stock alot. The reason you're more accurate on iPhone is probably because of its genius unseen system whereby it predicts the next letter you're going to type and resizes all of the keys' pressable areas based on the odds they will be selected. The greater the odds the bigger the pressing area. If the stock android KB implemented that it would be perfect. Thick keys is similar but not very good so I'm guessing there might not be a copyright issue. I know android indicated its awareness that the android kb needs a lot of work so maybe gingerbread will bring some enhancements...