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i love it all up to now but if i have to pick a fave id say the swipe up so you can click on apps along the bottom of screen,love not having to use the home button all the time.
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I love Reader. Gets rid of all the clutter reading articles in Safari. And there are many little positive changes. You can scroll on a text field now without having to keep pressure on the screen which is nice. Everything is snappier as well. Also I noticed now you can get a word definition anywhere, even in Safari just like in iBooks. Basically anywhere you can highlight text you can get a definition. Someone told me this is not new but I never noticed until after I updated.
Mtnmedic said:Funny you should mention the word "swype" as you've spelled it. "Swype" is a great little app on my Android EVO 4G phone that's really neat. For a tiny keyboard and using one thumb or finger, you literally swipe or slide (SlideIt is another such app which I also use) around the keys-without lifting your thumb/finger up-to form the words. It's surprisingly accurate. Something like that for the iPad would be cool. Here's a YouTube demo for anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about:
YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCWwuIXxBuI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I too just learned about the text-to-voice function. Would love a true built-in voice-to-text capability. So far about the only positively good way for thr iPad is using Dragon Dictation for dictating and Deagon Go for search/info, both by Nuance and free. I use both and they work very well. I like the split keyboard but agree with others the keys are too small for my thumbs. Thank God for the auto correct, otherwise I wouldn't use the split keyboard at all.
Michael "Spam, spam, bacon, eggs and spam. Hold the bacon and eggs." Sent from my iPad 2 using iPF
jussumguy88 said:I would love to have Swype on here. But I doubt that would happen unless we get a jail break on the iPad sometime.
Mtnmedic said:It actually isn't. It's the same size. See comparisons below. If there is any size difference, it's barely perceivable. Unless I'm doing something wrong, I love the split keyboard but the keys are a bit too small. A little bigger would be helpful. I can pretty much use the regular keyboard with my thumbs in portrait mode but it's tiring, being just a bit too big which in turn makes it harder to reach the t, g, v, y, h and b keys.
Michael "Spam, spam, bacon, eggs and spam. Hold the bacon and eggs." Sent from my iPad 2 using iPF
vbriggs said:I find it too small to type on, but see a LOT of people like it. May I ask why you like it?
HKWrite12 said:I had the split keyboard and the undocked kb confused. The undocked is annoying and shoddy, but the split is quite innovative. As far as the size, I think it is about the same size as iPhone keys. Since the phone is pretty smart, it's just poignant enough for any size big thumbs. I have a pair myself and me and my iPhone some times fight but after 2 years, it gets it right every now and the.
Czevski said:When you have the keyboard up, touch and HOLD the keyboard icon on the lower right and you will have the split option.
Czevski said:When you have the keyboard up, touch and HOLD the keyboard icon on the lower right and you will have the split option.
gjhsmith said:Thank you
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