Apple posts iPhone keyboard video

@ Jonathan, 4:

"My sidekick 3 doesn't have a .com button...it has an @ button which is pretty convieniet though."

Why would I need an @ button when browsing the Internet? I need it when I'm going to email somebody. Check out the iPhone Guided Tour, the @ is there.

Of course, downside here is that it doesn't have the .com button, but whatever.

I think I read somewhere that the correction software guesses what you were trying to type based on the general location of your finger on the keyboard AND a standard language dictionary. It's supposed to make it smarter and faster and in a sense, more context-based.

I think I read somewhere that the correction software guesses what you were trying to type based on the general location of your finger on the keyboard AND a standard language dictionary. It's supposed to make it smarter and faster than what we've seen before.

no dvorak, forget it.
what i really dont like is, that the it looks like as if it NEEDS a dictionary.
thats ok if you write in a language with a dictionary, english or german for example.
but what if you write in a "non-documented" language as swiss-german?
there is no dictionary, there is no grammar.
we've got dozens way to say "hi how are you".
i always write SMS (without T9 same reason) in swissgerman, because they are much more personal.
every person got their own style.
some say "xi", some "gsi", some "gsy" instead of "gewesen" (germ.) / "have been/was".
just as an example.
if we are forced to write in german that will stink, cause it's a loss of personality.
anyway, i hope that you can disable that whole "T9" and wordprediction and stuff.
that way i just need to learn to type the correct word, which seams rather impossible. damn you apple, i really like your device.

Anyone know if we can change the keyboard layout? I use Dvorak and would love to have my iPhone keyboard in Dvorak.

Pixar did a wonderful job creating that dude in the iPhone videos. He's quite realistic.

Intelligence? Hum, isn't that the good old T9 mode as available on any phone since 1997 ?

Unless it changes the words based on context (I slightly doubt it...) it is just chosing the closest dictionnary word like any other phone.

A question posed to all those concerned about the lack of tactile response in the keyboard:

If every time you pushed a virtual button on the keyboard a short vibration pulse occurred (I'm assuming the iPhone has a vibration motor in it), would you be happy?

or...

Do you need the "button being pushed down" feel?

Possibly you could even set the intensity of the pulse. Possibly it could be dynamically set.

The microphone/accelerometer could detect the amount of ambient noise/turbulence and could amp up the "virtual tactile response" accordingly.

What do you think?

Has anyone seen the user preferences for the the thing?

You have to tap the suggestion to decline it.
To answer my own question: Apple seems to be pretty sure that most of the times the iPhone makes a suggestion iPhone is right and the typing is wrong. In that case it is quite smart to make spacebar the confirmation key, it's just faster.
My first impression was that it would be better to make the spacebar the key for declining the suggestion, but that would only be the case if most of the suggestions would be bad suggestions.

That's what I meant - I wonder, why they didn't take another key for confirmation but the space button.