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To: dayglored
Likewise. I'm usually pretty good on a regular computer with a regular keyboard. But on a smartphone I have to use the microphone "dictation" feature -- typing is hopeless and correcting is frustrating beyond expression. Correcting the dictation errors is usually doable, or unnecessary if context allows.

Another reason why smartphones are profoundly inferior to a PC in most everything a PC can do (no right click, meaning far less options, and the ones a SM offers are slow access and or very limited, etc.) while smartphones are superior to a PC in features unique to them, which are very few, such as mobile phone, taking of pics, vids. SM's have also adversely affected the Internet due to brevity being favored, thus information being via headlines, TilToc etc.

However, as far as texting is concerned, I thank God for Google Messages for web.. Use Google Messages for web to send SMS, MMS, and RCS messages from your computer. Pair with QR code worked quickly for me. I have Galaxy Android

Not for Linux though.

48 posted on 10/08/2025 11:50:24 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: daniel1212; dayglored

I frequently use my Samsung phone when I am waiting for my wife in our vehicle. I use it with AR glasses that make it appear to be a desktop operating system in “Samsung Dex” which the phone switches to when I plug in the glasses. For input I use a folding Bluetooth keyboard that has a touch pad built in. I can glance down and see my hands. It is not a perfect system, but works much better than you might believe that it would


53 posted on 10/08/2025 2:17:12 PM PDT by fireman15
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