Someone visited this site on a BlackBerry not long ago in search of Vermont syrup.
Intrigued as I haven’t seen one of these critters in the logs for literally years. I set about to learn what magic BlackBerry 10 had bestowed upon its dedicated and faithful user base.
I landed on ca.blackberry.com/…/blackberry-10-os and had to do a double take.
With BlackBerry® Blend™ my productivity would be amplified with the addition of spell check!
I poke fun but only because fun needs a little poking here.
I was typing something sarcastic and my phone autocorrected “spell check” to “spell heck”. The productivity amplification may be overrated.
The only reason I can think of as to why they listed that as one of the biggest features is a shared custom dictionary across devices. Then your spell hecks will be with you were ever you go!
Ooh, ok. I’m curious about the details of how they would implement that. I had to install Google Keyboard on my phone so that I can have multi-language spell checking, because Samsung wanted me to toggle keyboard layouts back and forth to in order to do that. I’m guessing Blackberry wouldn’t handle that either. Point being, it wouldn’t sync properly.
And here’s a weird UI complaint for you: toggling the keyboard layout all the time is a problem because Danish has more letters and therefore the key size and spacing is slightly different from English and if I change back and forth my typing suddenly sucks.
Those Danish, they got everything. Pastries, extra keyboard keys, LEGOs.
Personally, I’ve only ever installed one extra keyboard for my phone. The infamous Hanx Writer. Because of this:
nytimes.com/…/i-am-tom-i-like-to-type-hear-that
Unfortunately I had to uninstall it since sounding grand all the time became a smidge annoying.
That’s amazing. I always at least insist on the clicky kind of computer keyboard, not the quiet, mushy kind. No typing sounds on my phone though. There’s something about digitally-faked typing and mouse clicking sounds that offends my aesthetic sensibilities, although the typewriter one is pretty tempting. As long as it has the extra vowels, Åå Ææ Øø.
“The S key was a mere nib.” - love it.
I liked the Apple keyboards and their only slight clicky-ness but ya, no sounds on phone keyboard for sure. I don’t want the FCC to hear me typing.
I only dream of the day when I can say that in context.
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