Android - text editing - moving one char.

[Tomsk]

Orange San Francisco, as it comes out the box ROM.

When editing a text message (or anything for that matter) how do I move the cursor ONE character at time?

On my WinMo phone it had a hardware d-pad.
On my Archois 5IT the Android keyboard has a couple of lewft/right cursor keys.
On my SanFran I stab roughly to the right of where I want to edit, delete a few characters and retype.

 

[Tomsk]

Long press > magnification glass > drag finger to desired cursor place?

Nope.
Long press brings up an edit text menu - select/cut/copy/input method. None of them will do.

 

[Tomsk]

just tap where you want the cursor to move to.

I don't have fat fingers, but the relative size of my finger and size of text means it's very difficult to place the cursor exactly where I want it.
The capacitive screen doesn't work with a fingernail or other pointy object.

 

[Tomsk]

Well I found out from Modaco that the TouchPal keyboard (included with the OSF) can do this.

A long press on the pencil icon brings up a cursor keypad.