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[andrewducker]

My mobile contract runs out in July.  Short of a better Android phone coming out before then I strongly suspect that the newly announced HTC Desire will be my next phone.

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[jarkman.livejournal.com]

I've been using a Nexus a bit lately, and although it is a lovely thing I don't think I could live with the on-screen keyboard fulltime.

My Motorola DEXT is in many ways less lovely, but it has a real typeable keyboard.

[andrewducker]

Good point. And Google don't seem to have got bluetooth keyboards working yet.

Hmm, maybe I should have a play with one first... Not that I write large amounts of text on my phone at the moment.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

I write the occasional mail or (verbose) SMS, and even for those my accuracy on the Nexus is very low. Perhaps it would get better with practise...

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

I haven't used a phone with a full slide out keyboard, but the android keyboard is certainly easier to use than typing texts on a number-style keypad. In portrait mode, the keyboard is pretty much unusable as the keys are far too small. I have the same problem with the iPhone, but rotate the phone and type in landscape mode and it's OK. I found the on-screen keyboard a bit fiddly to start with, but the calibration tool really helps to adjust it to how you actually type.

Also I find the predictive text is much faster than my previous phone (Nokia N95). It works in a different way, but once you get the hang of it, it is very good at guessing what word you are starting to type. I find it is much quicker than the Nokia version.