Feature Request: Reply to messages with QWERTY keyboard

Hello Garmin, if you are reading,

Could you please look into adding the feature of being able to reply to messages using a QWERTY keyboard.

Not just in Garmin Messenger but for other apps such as standard SMS, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, etc.

This feature is already available on the much cheaper Venu 3 and I believe is being added to the Fenix 8.

This would really make the Mk3i more complete as far as Smart features go.

Thanks.

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/forms/ideas/

  • Yes, I am receiving software updates in maintenance mode, they don't even try to bring this branch in line with the one on fenix 8 etc. It's not about promises, it's about reality. Are you into technology at all? Wouldn't you complain if you bought a brand new phone and never got a single OS upgrade? There doesn't need to be a promise of anything. It's just how the industry works.

    "And last, if you continuously arguing that it is expensive device maybe it is not for you"

    What an irrelevant condescending argument. Calling something expensive doesn't mean I can't afford it. And it doesn't bring anything to the table. Buying an expensive device creates expectations, especially since it's pretty standard for the rest of the industry. 

  • Yes, I am receiving software updates in maintenance mode, they don't even try to bring this branch in line with the one on fenix 8 etc. It's not about promises, it's about reality.

    You receive software updates for your model not for next one, why you expect to have functions from newest model on yours?
    If you have three years old Mercedes and next model appear, are you complaining that new model have something you don't have and expecting Mercedes to apply it to your car?

    Are you into technology at all?

    You even don't know how much I'm into technology, I work in technology (IT to be specific) since 90-ties.

    Wouldn't you complain if you bought a brand new phone and never got a single OS upgrade?

    This sentence only shows how young and spoiled you are, twenty years ago it was standard, you bought a phone with software which was never upgraded.


    Buying an expensive device creates expectations, especially since it's pretty standard for the rest of the industry.

    You are completely wrong, my expectations for devices are the same, doesn't matter cheap or expensive, I'm expecting same level of support from manufacturer.
    Only somebody who observe device form price perspective will differentiate that and demand that more expensive device should have better support. Price is a price and shouldn't affect support level.

    You should finally understand that price is a result of couple reasons:
    * cost of development and production
    * cost of marketing
    * how much people are eager to pay for it

  • I am not even going to bother with you anymore. Just for the record, I also work in IT and I'm nearly 40.

  • I also work in IT and I'm nearly 40.

    Just to your information.
    I'm 53 and I work in IT since 1995, thirty years, you just started primary school when I started my IT career.

  • Cool story. Now get off your high horse and back on topic.