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07/13/2007, 12:20pm, EDT
Friday, July 13th
iPhone typing faster than competition?
Consulting firm User Centric has published a summary of the initial results of its iPhone customer study, revealing that iPhone users were generally more productive with the iPhone's keyboard when composing text messages after one week than they were using previously owned phones. One portion of the study designed to identify overall ease-of-use factors and general usability issues among motivated early iPhone adopters who had experience with the device during the first week of ownership revealed that, overall, participants were initially satisfied with visual voicemail, selecting and playing music, saving contacts, and making as well as receiving calls while using other options. Frustrations arose however with regard to text entry SMS, the Google map feature, and the Web browsing experience. Six days after the iPhone launched, 60-minute usability sessions with actual iPhone customers showed vast improvement with device's the touch-screen keyboard.
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My god!
I've realized that it's because there is no physical need to actually "press" the keys... You can kinda skim-type. I sometimes get going faster than the software can keep up.
"Sent from my blackberry wireless handled device"
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I've played with the iPhone and typing is as fast as on my Treo after using it for a few minutes.
HOWEVER situations where the auto-correct gets in the way (ie url address, restaurant name) the keyboard can be frustrating.
OF COURSE it is faster to type on the iPhone's QWERTY keyboard then a T9 or other "multi-tap" phone. When sites make a story out of a no brainer it really frustrates me. This post is no more relevant then saying Blackberry users type faster then T9 users......DUH!