Typing experience in Symbian Anna and its touch in...

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Coming from a symbian 9.2 device (more exactly the Nokia N95), I've tested Nokia N8 input system before buying it, and I've got very surprised when I've known symbian ^3 had a keyboard layout that simulates the physical alpha numeric keyboard found in non-QWERTY phones (called "alphanumeric keyboard" in Symbian Anna).For an even greater surprise, the "predictive text" feature is also present, what for me, makes "alphanumeric keyboard" the best and fastest one to type.
Of course QWERTY keyboard is cool, but as I live in Brazil, the keys are smaller (to give room for special characters like ^, ~, `,' and c) if I use Portuguese as the Writing Language.On the other hand, the alphanumeric keyboard.has big keys, that are easily selectable.
Although "porting" the keyboard to a touch screen environment was very well done by Nokia in my opinion, there are a few features that were availiable for physical keyboards, and that aren't found in its touch screen counterpart.Below are the improvements that could also by ported, allowing an even faster typing experience in Symbian ^3 phones, and that would make typing almost perfect: (everything you read below is based on my experience as an user of a Nokia N8 with Symbian Anna, version 025.007)
-Multi-touch support for the key pressing.This is the number one addition, and the one I'd choose if only one of the improvements stated here could be done.Currently, only one key can be pressed at a time when typing, and that really slow things down, specially when you alternate keys using both fingers.Commonly, you find out the desired key didn't have its input processed cause you were already holding another key when the later was pressed.In physical keyboards of phones running (for example) Symbian 9.2, at least two keys can be securely pressed at the same time, and both inputs are processed
-Navigate by word.When Predictive text is active, and you move the cursor to some word, it could be underlined, meaning you could navigate quickly through words, and most importantly, make corrections more easily.Let's imagine you are trying to write the word "congratulations".After typing "congratu", you unwillingly press space, thus going out of the word.If you move the cursor back to it, i doesn't "stick" to the word.Instead, it just navigate through the letters.To complete the word, you'd need to either delete the whole word and rewrite it, or complement it as an independent word (typing with predictive text disabled, for example).If the same behaviour available to physical alphanumeric keyboards were implemented, it would be very easier to correct words, as moving the cursor to some word would cause it to stick to that word, entering immediately into an active prediction of that word.
- # key as "previous" during prediction.When you are typin some word with predictive text active, * key move forward in the matches list, but # key does absolutely nothing.In Nokia N95, for example, pressing it would go to previous word in list.
The following isn't a feature that were available in previous phones, it's just an improvement to the input system that could be implemented:
- Double-click in a word would select it, and a triple-click would select the whole text.It's possible in an other operating system for phones, and that makes it very easy to select text.
Please post your tips and feelings about the typing system in Symbian ^3 (related to touch input system).
Note: This goal of this post is to state some things that counld be improved by Nokia when releasing new updates
Best Regards

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