Mobile phones & tablets thread

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Originally Posted by ioan

The problem is that I mostly type technical emails and the phone's auto correct wants to write words that have nothing to do with what I need to type, in this case a keypad is so much better with turned off spellchecker.

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You can add technical words to the dictionary. When I upgraded I exported my user dictionary and it made amusing reading what with all the proper nouns and unrepeatable slang I'd added!

We managed to partially kill an iPhone 4S last week when it got wet. The screen shows no picture whatsoever but if you call the phone and press on the screen where you would normally answer it will pick up the call. Endomono which was tracking us continued to work and it's beeping for text messages and emails. The alarm even goes off as it should. Hopefully a new screen at about £25 should fix it. More annoyingly is that 99% of the time when we go out walking, hiking or cycling the phone was put in a waterproof case. The one time you forget to do that it gets wet and you break it. :(

I have a BB as a work phone. It's pants!

That explains the 65 mile walk then!

Yeah, it was only a 3 mile walk. Doh! With a new screen it should be as good as new. :)

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Originally Posted by BleAivano

turn off the auto-correct then?

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It's kind of a tread off.
When I use the 9900 with he keypad I do turn it off and everything is OK.
With this replacement crap with only the touchscreen I can't type 2 words without typing the adjacent letter instead of the right one as the approx 4 inch screen is too small, so I use the auto-correct but then it makes my life a hell when it comes to technical words or when I use another language and forget the change the dictionary settings. Hopefully it will be repaired before my next trip to the middle east, I'll need the 9900's keypad there.

can anybody (captain?) tell me the difference beween the SIII and the SIII LTE ?
Apart from the colour :)

Is it worth getting an LTE even though I won't be using the LTE bit for the time being? :cornfused:

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Originally Posted by henners88

Its because you are so used to the Blackberry. You can roll your fingers across the keys on a keyboard but its a different method when using a touch screen as your fingers have to completely leave the screen after each letter. Once you get used it its just as quick and easy in my experience. :)

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Well I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab which I use without such issues, but then again it has a much bigger touch surface, even in portrait mode.
IMO they profiled keys on the BB are great and give you that feel that you need in order to type very fast, just like on a PC keyboard, where you can use the Shift, control and alt key in the same time you are typing, and all these on a tiny keypad.

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Originally Posted by donKey jote

can anybody (captain?) tell me the difference beween the SIII and the SIII LTE ?
Apart from the colour :)

Is it worth getting an LTE even though I won't be using the LTE bit for the time being? :cornfused:

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If you won't use LTE technology for the next couple of years then there is little use to get the S3 LTE.

But the LTE would come in grey, which is nicer than white ! :andrea: :p

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Originally Posted by henners88

Its because you are so used to the Blackberry. You can roll your fingers across the keys on a keyboard but its a different method when using a touch screen as your fingers have to completely leave the screen after each letter. Once you get used it its just as quick and easy in my experience. :)

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Many keyboards have a "Swipe" mode which can vastly speed up your input as you don't have to lift your finger between letters. Maybe, ioan, you could trial these.