Andrew,
Don't forget that in many of the data entry apps you also have the option of
using "Dictation" or "Handwriting" mode.
To deploy "Dictation," locate the Space bar on the on-screen keyboard, slide
you finger gently to the left until you locate the "Dictation" button and
tap it to activate. You will be told how to terminate Dictation mode when
you've completed your data or text input. You can add punctuation in your
messages by stating them as "Exclamation Mark," "comma" or "period" to
mention a few.
Or, you can use "handwriting" if you know what the appearance of letters,
numerals and punctuation looks like.
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Holland's Boy, Bill
- "Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes."
- Napoleon Hill, American author in the area of the new thought movement,
1883-1970
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From: "Andrew Lamanche" <[email protected]>
To: "VIPhone" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 12:24 PM
Subject: New to iPhone - typing text efficiently
Listers,
My iPhone 5C had arrived yesterday, and due to your past support and the
information so devotedly published in many places by the generous users of
iDevices, I had succeeded in setting it up. What a relief and joy!!! I've
had some time today to play with it, and at the moment, the only trouble I
seem to have is to type text efficiently so that it doesn't take me for
ever. I see that some of you write fairly long messages to the group, others
compose documents in Pages etc. How on earth do you accomplish it? An
external bluetooth keyboard is not an option for me other than at home but
then I have my computer which has a qwerty keyboard.
I had great hopes for Braille Touch app but I have just realised how
difficult it is to hold it in the way recommended and at the same time use
the fingers to produce letters. I failed miserably! also, as others had
mentioned, my right hand blocks the speaker so it is very discouraging. I
had better luck with Fleksy. I turned my phone landscape and was able to use
most of my fingers to type with a degree of accuracy provided my phone
rested on the table.
The iPhone native keyboard is very small indeed. I tried to find where I
could change typing mode but it seems to be missing from the settings, or am
I missing something? On the iPad you can change typing mode from split tap
which I find slows me down, to touch typing which is a bit more efficient. I
know it's early days for me but answering text messages and writing short
e-mails is something I need to do fairly quickly.
I tried Siri for the first time, and I'm [proud to say that I had managed to
send a text, place a phone-call and ask for my location. Siri couldn't
always understand me though.
The volume up and down buttons do not seem to change the volume of Voiceover
much. Is this how it should be?
Thanks for any tips, and thanks for your support.
Andrew
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