Microsoft, it's time to turn SwiftKey into a flagship keyboard experience on Android. How is this not a part of Microsoft's keyboard offering on Android? I'm able to use keyboard shortcuts I'm familiar with on my PC on my phone thanks to the addition of CRTL shortcut support on the BlackBerry keyboard. I never tap into a text field and have to wait for half a second for the keyboard to pop up as I did with SwiftKey. The BlackBerry keyboard gets the fundamentals right, and that's incredibly important. It's simple, fast, with great auto-correct and shape writing, and it even has CTRL shortcuts for copy and paste.

The BlackBerry keyboard is hands-down, the best virtual keyboard I've ever used on any platform. This isn't a keyboard you're supposed to be able to install on non-BlackBerry devices, but you can bypass that block if you want to with an app called BlackBerry Manager. I've tried everything from Google's keyboard to Flesky (opens in new tab), and I finally found my Windows Phone keyboard replacement. I've tried plenty of Android keyboards since I made the switch from Windows Phone, looking for one that can at least pretend to compete with the mighty Windows Phone keyboard.

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