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It is the first time I buy a ROG phone and the main reason I did this is because I am a gamer, but after testing the phone for a few days I have noticed a few disappointing things like a little lagging during screen recordings, sound drop for a brief moment etc. But this is not the reason I am here, but the keyboard is. While playing games in landscape mode, the keys are so badly spaced out that when I try to write something, I am pressing the wrong keys. I have been a SAMSUNG user since their first S series phone. Before ROG phone 9 pro, my last phone was an S21, which keyboard was way better in every aspect. I have downloaded a keyboard app, but when I have activated it, I got a notification that it could read all my passwords so no, thank you! I can't trust any random app for this.
All this brings me here with the question: As this phone is so customizable, can't you bring us a few different keyboard styles to chose from, one of them being the same as SAMSUNG's? That one is way more intuitive, better organized(more logically organized) and has better functions with better structured buttons.
Hope this will help many others.
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I use SwiftKey keyboard and I had to resize it a little, plus they have loads of themes, every actual phone model screen is slightly different so you may have little muscle memory and you need to retrain your finger/thumb muscles to adapt to the screen... I have previous rog phone and the very small differences in screen bezel and etc make it slightly different to use, so you can adapt if you want to try and see.
I have issues with the microphone too, for voice to text - do you have this problem? The keyboard disappears or the microphone doesn't record for voice to text? It fails to load the speech to text microphone panel? Ask Mattias Asus to help? Voice to text issues
Voice to text issues
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I know what you say, but it's not only about the letter spacing, but also about the placement of some button or their absence, like the bar with emoji and other settings. I was able to customize it and make it look just as SAMSUNG's although that bar can't be placed and the amoji sign is badly placed near the space bar and makes it smaller, so I have decided to hide it and now it is overhand to access it, but still better than standard.
As for the sound problem, mine is not the same as yours. I have just brief interruptions during gaming, so short that you can miss them if you don't pay attention. Also some stuttering(not sure if this is the term)/lagging/frame drop for short moments some time and for this phone's specs this should never happen, so I suppose it's some software problem as on my Samsung s21 everything runs smooth even during screen recording.