Paul Martin
04-24-2008, 11:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://cootek.com/' target='_blank'>http://cootek.com/</a><br /><br /></div><em>"TouchPal is an innovative software keyboard powered by T+ input technology, which significantly improves the inputting experience on touchscreen handheld devices. Typing on TouchPal is pretty easy: you just need to <strong>tap </strong>and <strong>slide </strong>by your thumb. In most cases, you only need to tap tap tap and use the auto-word predition to input the right word. For precise input, you can slide left/right for a specfic letter, slide up for uppercase, slide down for a punctuation, or slide up and then down further for the symbol/number on top of each key."<br /></em><embed width="425" height="355" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dO9bLCNP2RQ&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"></embed><br /><br />There seems to have been a real push lately in finding a new way to input text using fingers and thumbs on the touchscreen. TouchPal, by CooTek, is actually in it's 3rd rendition. If you're already a TouchPal user, you can find a <a target="_blank" href="http://cootek.com/intro-what's new in V3.aspx">list of changes here</a>. For those not familiar with TouchPal, check out the video above, which demonstrates the very unique slide between keyboard layouts. Though it may be hard to see in the video, TouchPal uses what it describes as <a href="http://cootek.com/intro-t+.aspx" target="_blank"><strong>T+</strong></a>. which "<em>combines two letters and a symbol on each button of a QWERTY keyboard-based layout</em>". Why not check it out and compare it to some of the other finger-based SIP's?