
Minuum, as its name would suggest, had a minimalistic interface that could condense the three letter rows of a keyboard into a single small row at the bottom of the touchscreen, but in doing so, it relied heavily on autocorrection and autocorrection has trouble with unusual words.

Swype had the great Swype-typing feature that worked wonderfully for typing one-handed, but it, too, had a difficult relationship with its punctuation marks. I tried all of the major keyboard apps, and most of them had some fatal quirk. After a few days of not texting my girlfriend because it was too much trouble, I searched around for something more usable – SwiftKey was the answer. Typing coherent texts required both hands and my full attention. I also couldn’t use it at all with one hand or finger. I use punctuation when I text (don’t judge me) and Google Keyboard’s punctuation interface was clunky and inconvenient. The default Google Keyboard was frustrating to me.

When my Verizon provider told me that keyboard phones had gone out of style, I was distraught until SwiftKey keyboard app came to my rescue.
