The popularity of touchscreen smartphones is surging, but as anyone who types out a lot of mails and messages will tell you, they're less than ideal for heavy text input. Nimish Dubey has a few suggestions on how you can get a touchscreen phone or tablet and still bang out long pieces of text — with both physical and software keyboards
Touchscreens might have taken the world by storm over the last year and a half, but there is one area in which even the most die-hard touchscreen supporter will admit that they concede ground to the older button-style interface. And that is the old-fashioned art of typing text — be it for messaging, mail, or just social networking updates and comments.
Yes, onscreen keyboards might claim to be as well laid-out as their hard button counterparts, but typing on them is seldom as easy — most people would rather rather type out a text or a mail on a traditional BlackBerry with a QWERTY layout than use the keyboards that come on most touchscreen devices.
