Google brings five new languages, GIF suggestions to Gboard keyboard app for iOS

Voice calls, texts, words in general, both spoken and written, appear to be losing steam in modern day-to-day communication. The perfect emoji and a carefully selected GIF can take little effort and convey much more emotion, as well as mystery and ambiguity, than your typical figure of speech.With your emoji game recently upped by SwiftKey’s aptly named Swiftmoji release on Android and iOS, it’s time you also brushed up on your GIF reaction skills today, thanks to Google and its more awkwardly titled Gboard app.Unfortunately for ...

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Adjustable keyboard height now featured on Google Keyboard for Android

As clunky as the user interface is, one of the joys of using LG’s software atop Android is the fact that you can adjust the height of your keyboard. Feel like going two-handed? Make it short. One-handed day? Make it tall. You just had to use an LG phone to get this magic out of the box.But you aren’t limited anymore as Google Keyboard has made the big change in providing five height options in the settings menu ...

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Signature Type Cover brings Alcantara material to Microsoft Surface

When it comes to typing on the Microsoft Surface Pro, you don’t really have too many choices in choosing a proper keyboard: really, it’s the Type Cover or bust.But if you want a more luxurious feeling pad for your palms to rest on while you’re typing away on your

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The weirdest thing about the Galaxy Note 5 is its newest accessory

There’s a lot of talk floating around about the latest Galaxy Note. From one perspective, it’s Samsung’s most beautiful phablet yet, porting the top-notch design of the Galaxy S6 to the Note family and bumping some specs in the process. From another, it represents a watering down of an iconic brand once partly known for its no-compromises feature load. We made the case for both sides on the latest episode of the

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Why iOS keyboards are worse than their Android equivalents

When Apple announced iOS 8 at WWDC earlier this year, I actually got very excited for an iOS update for the first time … possibly ever.I use iOS daily and, despite popular belief, I don’t hate it. However, for the last few years, iOS has been a bore, and it’s been a little behind the curve, particularly in the ability to share information between apps, or interoperability. This stemmed from a combination of Apple’s walled garden, as many like to call it, and sandboxed applications. Apple only officially allowed cross-application sharing between a few, select applications, like its ...

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