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[–] eepydeeby@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

+1 to this. Tried a bunch of FOSS keyboards and switched to HeliBoard because of it! Wouldn't you know, autocorrect experience improved 😮‍💨

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Microsoft used to have a word flow keyboard I absolutely adored and they killed it. I miss it terribly.

[–] Kite@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

SwiftKey! I loved that keyboard and you're right, they killed it.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No the curved thing. The corner was the space bar, the keyboard bend around that corner. You could one hand it better than you can two-hand a modern one on big phones. I LOVED it. I am still violently angry it’s gone.

Just talking about it…wait a second. I need to wipe out a family.

[–] leadstark@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Maybe, Microsoft Word Flow?

https://youtu.be/lVZ0jmZ-egM

Which phones had it?

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 days ago

The OG Swype was the best. Used it until it was too old to be installed on current gen android

Still miss it every day I have to use a phone keyboard. Even swiping this text had me re"type" multiple times that I didn't have to do back in swype days

Using standard gboard, but swiftkey wasn't really better in my experience