Apple iPhone Keyboard Video

apple just posted a new video about using the keyboard....haven't checked it out yet but just giving the heads up

Looks really interesting, like the addressbook integration as well as the magnify feature.

Didn't mention anything about adding words to the dictionary though.

Looks really interesting, like the addressbook integration as well as the magnify feature.

Didn't mention anything about adding words to the dictionary though.

it said it adds all words that you type automatically i believe.

the magnifying glass was mentioned in a story of a restaurant wine director who got to use one because there was a tester eating in his restaurant. and no one believed that he used one but he brought up that magnifying glass feature. now i am starting to believe him

i am also wondering if apple will probably come out with a new video every day until friday. since they had the activation and syncing one yesterday and now this one today

it said it adds all words that you type automatically i believe.

opps missed that bit

"learns the words you type most often including proper names and everything in your addressbook"

Watched it again and it does seems really intelligent and the typing at the end is pretty fast (although I have never used a Blackberry so don't know how quick it is compared to something like that)

the magnifying glass was mentioned in a story of a restaurant wine director who got to use one because there was a tester eating in his restaurant. and no one believed that he used one but he brought up that magnifying glass feature. now i am starting to believe him

i am also wondering if apple will probably come out with a new video every day until friday. since they had the activation and syncing one yesterday and now this one today

I believed him. The magnifying feature was also in a previous patent Apple filed.

edit - blimey! Did you see the way it increases the size of certain keys? Wow. Has this been done before? Thats just genius.

As cool as this is, I hope there is an easy way to disable the word-prediction functionality as I often find myself having to switch to another language for the occasional email and this would get in the way.

My Blackberry also allows me to press the space bar twice which puts a period at the end of a sentence and adds a blank space, then it capitalizes the first letter of the next word. It's very handy and I'll miss it if the iPhone doesn't do this. Who knows, maybe RIM patented that feature.

i think they should put a period on the main keyboard - that’s a very often used punctuation. Having to type 3 buttons to put one in then go back to the letters seems cumbersome

Pretty cool how it anticipates your next key and enlarges it for increased accuracy.

One issue I can see though since you use the space key to accept suggestions, if your word isn't recognized by the dictionary and say is four letters long, but at four letters the keyboard as a suggestion, hitting the space key will accept that suggestion rather than moving on to the next word. If this is the case, that could be a real pain...

i think they should put a period on the main keyboard - that’s a very often used punctuation. Having to type 3 buttons to put one in then go back to the letters seems cumbersome

On a Blackberry, if you space twice, it automatically adds one. I wonder if the iPhone will do the same...