Typing on Diamond coming from Touch

[ace741]

I currently have a Sprint Touch and am deciding to go for a Diamond or Touch Pro. I have done a lot of reading on people's experience with the diamond and have to admit I am a bit surprised that some people are surprisngly happy using the on-screen keyboard on the diamond.

I love my touch and for texting the on screen keyboard works pretty well. However for web surfing and putting in passwords I find it a little annoying since those require using special characters and changing out the keyboard often. The predictive text also gets annoying when I try to put in URLs even though I have it set to Full Qwerty.

Those that have gone to a Diamond from a Touch, has the on-screen keyboard experience gotten better? If so how? And I'm not talking about installing 3rd party keyboard apps.