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this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2025
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Fuck yeah: Buttons! Keyboards, expandable storage, and swappable batteries next please. I miss being able to accurately touch type on my phone without looking.
Virtual keyboards have never been great and the mainstream ones are getting enshittified more and more (Heliboard is OK with some minor modification, but it's open source).
Yeah I'm not really a fan of virtual keyboards that are basically querty on the screen. The compact size of the phone kinda demands a different approach.
I use flickboard which helps me minimize typos. My all time favorite virtual keyboard was the now defunct minuum. I was able to reliably touch type with it. I stopped using because it wasn't open source (but miss it despite that).
https://www.cnet.com/reviews/minuum-keyboard-review/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dZh8r-xErGE&pp=0gcJCR4Bo7VqN5tD
Wow, i immediately installed flickboard, thanks!
Alright glad my comment helped!
I'm actually surprised that nobody ever fundamentally reinvented text input for touchscreens in a way that caught on.
There have been touch-specific keyboard layouts, but not really for English or other languages with Latin characters. You can probably imagine that CJK touch KBs can be pretty creative sometimes though.
There’s swipe if that counts.
Kind of seems like reinventing the wheel to me, given that I, at least, can maintain like 50wpm on my phone. I have a hard time imagining another design that could let me type faster.