Written on Windows Phone 7

I was sick last week and missed my usual Wednesday blog post. If anyone actually reads this blog they will know that it is Thursday at least as often as Wednesday and often even later than that, but I do try for Wednesday.

I hope no one is expecting anything profound this week. Profound and typing on a tiny onscreen keyboard do not go together but in my own going quest to put Windows Phone 7 through its paces I thought I would try typing a blog post right on the phone...gives a whole new meaning to phoning it in.

My blog has been pretty solidly Windows Phone 7 for the last couple of months but that is going to change. Windows Phone 7 has become a major thing in my life over the last couple of months, but I don't intend to let it take over. There is lots more to comment on in the big wide world and it is time I got back to it.

Now, I must say that using this keyboard is not the worst thing in the world. I can actually get up a head of steam and as long as I can keep moving I can get what I think down on the page...or screen. My thumbs do hurt after a while, but this is better than the physical keyboard on my old phone. I would still like to have Swype, but I think that this is easier fir real writing than Swype. I love Swype for text messages though.

Now there are a few annoying features. I just demonstrated one of them. I didn't type the period at the end of the first sentence of this paragraph. I tapped space twice and it added the period on its own. The problem is that if you are not crisp with pressing space you may find yourself with extra periods. This can be more than a little annoying, but it isn't a huge problem, just a small annoyance.

The excellent text prediction more than makes up for it. You get a line of words between the keyboard and the text area and you can click on a word in that line any time you want. Sometimes the word is bold and if you hit space or period while a word is bold then that word will replace what you actually typed. It works so well that you can actually type fast and most things come out perfectly.

This was entirely written on my HD7 in one afternoon during breaks at work. It wasn't an unpleasant experience.

I'll try to be profound next week.