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Links to my recent posts elsewhere about using Samsung M21 Android smartphone more effectively: Google Voice Typing, Microsoft Dictate, Magnify etc.

Last updated on 8th Feb. 2023 Some background first: I am novice smartphone user and started using a decent speed and features smartphone (Samsung M21) in mid 2020. Even after buying it, I did not invest too much time in learning how to improve my typing speed on it, and used slow one finger typing and did not delve much into features of the default Samsung on-screen keyboard, except perhaps for text shortcuts. I avoided doing any medium length and long messages stuff (say beyond 3 or 4 sentences max) on my smartphone and used my PC for those purposes which has a full QWERTY keyboard on which I type with quite good speed using all ten fingers of both hands. Even for WhatsApp messages of medium length, I would do it on PC using WhatsApp on web or on PC. It is after my hospitalization in January 2022 that there were times when I did not have access to PC, and so was forced to use only the mobile for my messages and notes. Over the period of the past year, I have started using my phone a