hotzie said:
with mine if i hit the #'s you put in there i can scroll left or right through the words it gives me and find good and home
mine has a full qwerty keyboard that slides out, I never use it and tap with my stylus on the touchscreen. That is cool
Fogg, this is the first thing that popped up when I googled your query
Messaging on the Motorola RAZR V3c is quite simplistic. Text messaging consists of a simple text editor with no templates or quick texts available. Text input is handled through the use of triple-tap, the default mode, or through the use of Motorola's proprietary iTap method, which offers word prediction and completion and requires fewer keystrokes. Sadly, the V3c does not remember the last text input mode you used in the message editor, meaning that you will have to switch it back to iTap each time you enter the text editor. You can do this by pressing the left softkey to get the list of input methods, or you can simply press the '*' key to switch to the next mode.
The iTap implementation on the V3c seems to work like it does on non-Verizon handsets, but the word suggestion list that would normally be visible at the bottom of the display is missing. As such, if you enter 4263 in the hopes of getting "hand", you might well get "game" instead. In order to switch to hand, you would need to press right on the d-pad to get to all of the possible alternatives. Without the visual feedback, though, it is not as easy to use and you will often need to resort to the use of triple-tap to enter a word. Words entered with the triple-tap method do not appear to get stored in the iTap system's user dictionary, though. If you can fumble your way through entering an unknown word with iTap, it will be stored in the dictionary for future use.
Another issue has to do with the Verizon user interface (again), especially when used in combination with iTap. Sometimes, such as when creating a new picture message, you are presented with fields for message text, picture, sound, subject, etc - all on one screen. When iTap is in control, such as when entering text, pressing the center d-pad button will do what iTap wants, regardless of what the label for the button on the bottom of the display says - such as "send." The pix message UI is really quite poor in general, and when you first use it for new picture messages, you are likely to send the message before it is finished when you try to add a sound or graphic, since you would expect to hit the d-pad button while the picture or sound field is highlighted, when instead you need to press the left softkey button, which changed when you selected the new field. Very odd design.
Motorola RAZR V3c