Cursor positioning

Cursor positioning on Windows Phone is either hit or miss, sometimes a grace, sometimes a curse. To move the cursor to any given location within a text, Windows Phone offers two methods. First, you can long-tap the screen, upon which a positioning cursor will appear that may be dragged around to the exact desired position, and second, you can click anywhere in the text in order to move the cursor to somewhere near the clicked location. "Somewhere near" meaning that this second option will only allow for the cursor to be placed behind a word, not within, thus rendering this method moot for spelling corrections within words.

When the text you're editing only spans so many lines as fit on the screen at once, there won't be any problem. However, if the text extends beyond your screen real estate, prepare for swearing. Windows Phone loves scrolling and consequently, scrolling will commence virtually as soon as you bring up the positioning cursor by long-tapping on the screen. The horizontal stripe your finger needs to hit in order for Windows Phone to not scroll up or down is so minuscule that you'll barely ever manage to position the cursor where you wish to. It's no less impossible than nailing the star on a slot machine, and the omission of cursor keys on the virtual keyboard does not change things for the better.

So in essence, what I'll eventually do when spell correcting words is highlighting the whole word, deleting it and rewrite. That's such a shame because the idea behind the cursor positiong logic is quite brilliant, only its execution comes about as epicly lackluster.