Palm Pre owners complaining about the lack of touchscreen keyboard

**substring** · 07-10-2009, 04:16 PM

Palm Pre owners complaining about the lack of touchscreen keyboard

Electronista | Pre owners complain of lack of onscreen keys

**BigRick10#WN** · 07-10-2009, 05:23 PM

Not me. Im sure some would like it.

**substring** · 07-10-2009, 05:44 PM

There are always people who will complain. They should have known about the keyboard when they bought the phones.

**BigRick10#WN** · 07-10-2009, 06:12 PM

I unlike most people research on everything before i buy it. So when i got the pre i was not surprised that it doesnt do this or that (yet)

**ame** · 07-13-2009, 11:36 AM

See..that is something I will never complain about. I don't like onscreen keyboards.

**misterzeno225** · 07-14-2009, 02:09 PM

I just got my pre today, don't know what all the complaints are aboutm granted the keyboard does suck, but I'm cool.

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**BulletTooth** · 07-15-2009, 07:51 PM

Originally Posted by misterzeno225

I just got my pre today, don't know what all the complaints are aboutm granted the keyboard does suck, but I'm cool.

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Give it a week and you will not have any problems typing on the keyboard. When I first got mine I had a problem hitting the bottom of the screen when trying to type on the top row of keys, that doesn't happen anymore.

**spimoles** · 07-16-2009, 01:43 AM

After playing around with my mother's Pre I think the screen is a bit small for a practical full qwerty keyboard.

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**dredayholiday** · 07-16-2009, 02:53 AM

People always complain, if the phone had no physical keyboard people would want one, now it doesn't have a virtual keyboard people want one. Phone manufacturers should just make phones with slide/fold out keyboards and virtual ones fresh off.

**Sinternet Jr.** · 07-16-2009, 06:16 AM

Originally Posted by dredayholiday

People always complain, if the phone had no physical keyboard people would want one, now it doesn't have a virtual keyboard people want one. Phone manufacturers should just make phones with slide/fold out keyboards and virtual ones fresh off.

That's exactly what happened. They bashed the iPhone for not having a physical keyboard, and the same people who led the outcry are now complaining for a lack of on screen KB. That's how society is.

**BzB** · 07-16-2009, 10:08 AM

the iphone got bashed for not having a physical keyboard because using the portrait only on screen keyboard was annoying at times. they solved that issue by adding a landscape keyboard.

pre owners are complaining about the lack of a touchscreen keyboard because the physical portrait only keyboard is really bad. after a few months of typing on the pre keyboard all pre users hands will look like this...

**misterzeno225** · 07-16-2009, 06:50 PM

Originally Posted by BulletTooth

Give it a week and you will not have any problems typing on the keyboard. When I first got mine I had a problem hitting the bottom of the screen when trying to type on the top row of keys, that doesn't happen anymore.

I have gotten used to it, im keeping it i am very pleased with this phone, it has quirks but im not going back to blackberry.

**nem0nic** · 07-17-2009, 12:23 AM

pre owners are complaining about the lack of a touchscreen keyboard because the physical portrait only keyboard is really bad. after a few months of typing on the pre keyboard all pre users hands will look like this...

That's funny, because I've been thinking for a long time that Blackberry users are starting to look like this...

**BzB** · 07-17-2009, 10:54 AM

the phone that guy is holding has a MUCH better keyboard than the one on the pre. i bet pre owners wouldn't complain about the lack of a touchscreen keyboard if there's was at least that good.

**DeeBee85** · 07-17-2009, 11:15 AM

Originally Posted by nem0nic

That's funny, because I've been thinking for a long time that Blackberry users are starting to look like this...

lolol...touche, palmy

**RobNyc** · 07-23-2009, 05:19 AM

cant wait till they release the on-screen keyb & leave android in the dust

**nem0nic** · 07-23-2009, 07:20 AM

Didn't they discover in that OS release that there was already an onscreen keyboard in the OS but it wasn't activated?

**BzB** · 07-23-2009, 08:20 AM

on screen keyboard was discovered while trying to hack webkit. however, it is completely useless without an significant OS upgrade, just like the pre's physical keyboard is useless without a complete redesign. maybe pre 2 will have all of this done the right way.

**nem0nic** · 07-23-2009, 07:25 PM

on screen keyboard was discovered while trying to hack webkit. however, it is completely useless without an significant OS upgrade...

And how do you come to this conclusion (not that it matters, since you are a troll, and OS upgrades appear to be less of a major feat for Palm than they seem to be for RIM)?

**cckgz4** · 07-23-2009, 07:29 PM

Right. So they want to type on a virtual keyboard via BB Storm and Instinct esque? Those suck and not only that, the whole screen disappears so you can type on the keyboard.