To think that MNetting is sooooo much easier when using a proper keyboard?

[ExitPursuedByABear]

Since getting my ipad, and then discovering that I can MNet from my iphone, I rarely sit at my desk with my keyboard where I can happily bash out long posts with lots of crossing outs and bolds and emoticons.

My posts have got increasingly shorter as I can't be arsed with all that finger tapping, and oh the bizarre corrections these new fangled gadgets make.

Those of you who use your phones and tablets all the time, how do you manage such long and interesting posts?

Or am I just an old fogey?

i have a nokia from the dark ages I cant do anything on it so I am always tap tapping away, I can see mumsnet from my phone but \I wouldnt be able to post

I really can't be bothered to MN from my phone. Besides the screen is too small. I much prefer using my laptop.

yes, yes it is.
I hate replying on my tablet

I usually just don't post if I'm on my phone. It's too much like hard work.

I too don't bother posting much from my phone. It takes forever to load anything over about a hundred posts anyway so I stick to short threads in the depths of the night when feeding. I save all the chatting for the couple of times a day when I am free to use the laptop in peace, such as now

Feeding DS now while reading on my phone, takes forever to reply!

I dunno, I'm pretty quick at typing on my phone to be honest. Obviously typing on a laptop is easier, but it doesn't bother me to do it on my phone.

YANBU. i tried on DS's I Pad. It was painful, and difficult and stressful.

YABU. I love my IPad. It's smaller (a mini) but it's easier to type (and I can touch type etc; so a keyboard is fine) and you don't need to do shifts etc; and I just love typing on here! So simple, so quick!

I'm the same as you Exit. I cannot conceive of how people actually manage to type on those things let alone quickly.

I have a desktop and I won't be parted from it

You touch type on your ipad

I always have a drink in one hand.......

Is that the real you rooney or t'other one?

If I'm starting a proper thread I'll use my computer. If I'm just lurking or making the odd comment, then the ipad will do.

I can sort of touch type of the ipad but it always goes wrong.

Do you start improper threads then MaryZ?

Shit. Mardy

LOL

I just read the thread and found out the other one was interested in erm, 'marmite'

Oh dear

I will never live it down!!!

Btw I find the coffee holder on the desktop very useful.

Shame you don't have an android phone/tab with swiftkey. It guesses your next word from your previous one(s). And it learns. I keep thinking it'll start calling me Dave.

I think I would see that as a bit of a challenge coal and try to befuddle it. Like beating the sat nav.

It's astounding. Like the sat nav, it's impossible to game. I have saved 54,000 key strokes since April, apparently.

I get what you mean, though. (it guessed that last sentence).

54,000!

I know! I'm not even that prolific anywhere. I guess it's counting as if i had no prediction, but still.

I've just bought a Transformer Infinity for work. Will be interesting to see how much I use the keyboard.

Soz - i'm spreading geek about a bit liberally.

i've got the Thumb Keyboard on mine.
it's an android, so don't know if it works for ipads.
it's great.

(but as i'm lefthanded, it's never perfect - the direction of the screen vs my pressure means that when i type one-handed, i end up with odd letters on the right hand side of the keyboard.