So what do women with fingernails do?
Fognozzle
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I got my wife a Droid Incredible and from her perspective it's almost unusable. She was using a Samsung Impression with a slide out keyboard (which she used fairly effectively with her fingernails but which she has come to hate). It was her idea to update to an Android phone but she's gone into serious implosion mode. Her fingernails aren't that long, just the usual girly stuff, maybe 3/8 of an inch long. Swiping and dialing the phone work pretty well, but typing an SMS message or an e-mail is absolutely out of the question. Like 80% error rate or worse.

 

And some things on the Incredible, like entering contacts, absolutely won't allow you to use a landscape mode keyboard but instead insist that you use the portrait mode keyboard which is all shrunk up and condensed. I can pretty much use it with my non-fingernail fingers but even I fat finger half of the entries and I'm constantly correcting input. With my wife and that condensed keyboard it's a complete meltdown. Sincerely, it actually strikes me as kind of retarded to only SOMETIMES allow you to use the larger landscape keyboard, but no amount of holding the phone in landscape mode will make it change.

 

We do have a screen protector stuck to the screen that came with the phone from Verizon, but it is supposed to be guaranteed not to change the user interface experience, so I'm thinking that's probably not a contributing factor. But absolutely, positively the screen only responds to the touch of flesh and absolutely ignores anything from the fingernail, so my wife is completely upside down with the phone. Surely this can't be normal?

 

Any insights?

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Re: So what do women with fingernails do?
Jax_Omen
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You could get one of those capacitive touchscreen styluses. Androidcentral has some, I think.

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budone
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Maybe she could use the speech to text mode????  I have seen many a woman with much longer finger nails text.

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Ann154
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As a female, I get along fine with the portrait keyboard on my 3.2" screen. Currently typing this with one thumb, the pad side of course. I have learned to aim my fingers as needed to get the right keys. I have also used the side of fingers for the ones with the longer nails. This is also my first touch screen phone. I should mention as well that I don't use keyboard layout that came with the phone and have switched to a replacement keyboard called SwiftKey. I enjoy it prediction methods for the words I type. I also use the portrait mode more than the landscape mode when typing.

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Tidbits
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When my wife got her iphone she just removed her nails, and actually cut her real nails short.  So far she doesn't  miss her nails. lol

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gerio
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I think I have seen some alternative keyboard apps in the app market and one or two of them offered large key buttons.

Also, I believe I read that the OP's wife could use Swype, ask if that is the case, is she able to text with Swype? I'm writing this post with Swype right now.

Geri O
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budone
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Tidbits wrote:

When my wife got her iphone she just removed her nails, and actually cut her real nails short.  So far she doesn't  miss her nails. lol


But do YOU miss them???  hahahaha

 

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Re: So what do women with fingernails do?
AZSALUKI
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also...there are plenty of comparable devices (androids) that have slide out qwerty keyboards. if you are within 14 days of the purchase, she may want to go in and play around with an LG Ally or Moto Droid II. there's is also a moto droid that looks like a blackberry (droid world or pro??? not sure which one). 

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jasnmar
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The Droid Pro looks more like a Blackberry. The Droid 2 Global looks just like the Droid 2, both of which have a slide out keyboard.

jason

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Re: So what do women with fingernails do?
RocksAndGravel

I have heard  that some women with long nails curl their finger down and use the top joint of their index finger for keyboards.  I have only seen it done once, and I can't say that it isn't a learned skill. 

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Ann154
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I think the only time I have used my knuckles is when my fingers were wet or had food bits on them.

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