[Roark66]

The best shorthand for onscreen writing is the way SwiftKey keyboard supports. Basically you swipe your finger in one continuous path between letters stopping between words. It let's one write in comparable speed to typing on a smartphone onscreen keyboard.

[zimpenfish]

I'm still salty that there's no FITALY[1] equivalent for iOS. MessageEase[2] has the same kind of idea but is nowhere near as easy to learn and use. I could whip through text at great(ish) speed on my Palms and PocketPCs using FITALY...

[1] https://textware.com/fitaly/ofkey.htm

[2] https://www.exideas.com/ME/index.php

[Semaphor]

While it’s nice (nowadays, many keyboards actually support "swiping), it still gets so much wrong, and accuracy plummets for bilingual writing (For myself, I decided that the annoyance of getting nothing right because I’m in the wrong language is better than introducing more subtle errors). For those reasons, I still wish there were phones with full physical keyboards.

[donogh]

You might like Clicks in that case: https://www.clicks.tech/

[Semaphor]

Even if I were to ever use an iPhone (which I won’t), it bulks up phones even more. I already find modern phones far too large. I was thinking more of something like the Nokia E71 [0] or for a bigger screen, a slide out like the HTC Desire Z / T-Mobile G2 [1], both phones I had before, and loved at the time.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_E71

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Desire_Z

[aidenn0]

You might like the Unihertz Titan series. The Titan Pocket is very similar to the E71: https://www.unihertz.com/products/titan-pocket

[Semaphor]

Ohh, that looks awesome. A bit thick, but otherwise great! My current one is only 2 years old, but I’m saving this.

[aidenn0]

The Titan Slim is newer and thinner but has a > 4" screen on top of the keyboard, making it quite tall.