help please i have a samsung wave 8500 mobile phone how are you supposed to text you touch one key and catch two itss impossible with ordinary fingers also can you use radio without headset great phone but complex but will i ever be able to use it ha ha

Take it back and get a different phone then...

cut your nails

ha ha ha so funny jak1 but i have short nails

Get a stylus for it, they're only a couple of quid, useful for anyone with normal sized fingers

cheers doc

stylus does not work on samung wave, and no to using radio without headset

Download the manual.
Apparently there are several options for entering text.
http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/c.../GT-S8500_UM_Open_Eng_Rev.1.5_101203.pdf

Didn't know you could get syslisses for mobiles lol

You've seen my TP2. But Windows Mobile is like... 10 years old, and it was built for resistive touchscreens and Stylii (sp?). Only ever had one capacitive touchscreen handset, WinMo's swansong aka the HD2, which was more hassle for HTC/Microsoft to develop, than it was worth.

I am still gobsmacked how people still need to use styluses with these modern OS's though... I mean, I'm running WinMo 6.1 (so not even the relatively more touch-friendly 6.5.3/6.5.5 BETA's - they don't call WinMo the "stylus-happy OS of yesteryear" for nothing lol [it's a dig at it's antiquated GUI], and yet I think I use the stylus once in a blue moon, usually when I'm tired.

If a modern handset/OS requires a stylus on a touchscreen, it begs the question as to why it has a touchscreen...

Here we go Sarah...


Hardcore!!

First of all, the Samsung Wave DOES work with a stylus.

I wasn't commenting on the practicalities of it or how old the OS is or how the UI should be improved, I was giving a very simple way to work around not being able to press one key at a time.

The headphones are the aerial for the radio, even some of the cheaper Samsungs have them inbuilt but for some reason not the Wave.

opinion divided on stylus can i or not use on this phone helpppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp

Why don't you just take it back and get a different phone? There are better "touch" OS's out there than Bada...

would of changed it but it was given to me by someone who never got round to use it due to ill health

Fair do's. Here is a stylus, 99p delivered from a UK seller:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SILVER-ST...s_Accessories_RL&hash=item4cfa6e391c

The only thing with a phone that ain't designed for a stylus, is you will have it hanging around all the time as an extra (they slot neatly and discreetly away within the phone when they're built for them).

Personally, I'd recommend you have a stab at just getting to grips with using your fingers, or alternatively, throw Android onto it and use a shell such SPB Home or HTC Sense if you can get a ROM with it.

thanks matt will get one of them your baffling me with the android thing ha ha ha

Just go with the stylus then, but deffo try and get used to using your fingers, you should grasp it over time.

iPhones are crap, a simple thing called a stylus does not work on them

You can't use a regular stylus, because iPhones use capacitive screens, not resistive. The ability to effectively use anything as a stylus (and therefore, accuracy), is considered one of the main pro's of resistive touchscreens (there are pro's and cons on both sides though).

However, there are specially designed styluses available for most capacitive screens, that stylus above should probably work with it. It does seem to a be a technical limitation that they cannot attain the pinpoint accuracy of resistive styluses, but they achieve the same result, accuracy aside.

Sorry doc my aplogies, you are right stylus does work, but has to be special one.