This is the first word document I was composing with the ShapeWriter and SlideIt applications, and it felt somewhat liberating in comparison to tapping on-screen buttons. One thing that I immediately noticed was the ShapeWriter glitch that didn't allow editing of any words that have been previously entered in the document. While editing a word just applied to the current one at which the cursor resided, doing anything more resulted in immediate shut down of the Docs to Go application with an error message! What the heck?!! It appears that when I wrote a sentence with ShapeWriter that it somehow stayed written in stone.
I figured that trying the SlideIt alternative would be better for editing, and it indeed was...but it, too, came with it's own quirk. In the midst of sliding from key to key, I would hit a snag where a word's first letter in mid-sentence would be capitalized. To make matters worse, I couldn't figure out a way to efficiently change this first letter to lower case. Out of frustration, I eventually shut down the application myself.
Switching back to the stock keyboard was the only saving grace, and it was at that time when I realized something. Now that the honeymoon period is over with Nexus One, I am finding that I do miss the hardware QWERTY much more than I thought for word document editing. The fortunate part is that I don't currently write all the time on my mobile handsets...but this could be a result of not having a comfortable hardware QWERTY anymore. Since the Touch Pro 2 and E71, I had settled for the narrow, but tactile N900 and now the capacitive Nexus One. Both models have their strengths, but they don't measure up to the Touch Pro 2 and E71 by any stretch of the imagination. Despite the superiority of their keyboards, the TP2 and E71 suffer from lackluster operating systems...Symbian more so than Windows Mobile. While going back to either of those models seems unlikely at this point, there is still a great amount of contentment I feel from the Nexus One for its everyday utility in composing messages short emails, Facebook statuses, and Twitter posts via Seesmic.
Writing on a document editor is a grand luxury, and I am at least grateful to have that privilege on this Nexus One after being denied such on the N900. Having a hardware QWERTY is yet another luxury that could be attended to in the future by a future Android device. This is why I currently have my sights set on the Samsung Galaxy S unit, for its specs are extraordinary and only further made attractive with a 32GB microSD card! The model set to be released soon has no hardware QWERTY, but rumor has it that a future version may have one at around June!!
TRENT SMITH
Sent from my Google Nexus One
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