04-24-2008, 11:00 AM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,221
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TouchPal v3 is All Thumbs
"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 tap and slide 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."
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 list of changes here. 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 T+. which "combines two letters and a symbol on each button of a QWERTY keyboard-based layout". Why not check it out and compare it to some of the other finger-based SIP's?
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04-24-2008, 04:05 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 50
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I had some issues with it freezing or pausing on my Touch. Anyone else seen this?
I love the features, but it is still a bit small for me to navigate cleanly with my thumbs.
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04-25-2008, 10:21 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 454
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I've been using this SIP for a while, and once you get used to it it's amazing -- so much better than the built-in keyboards (on the HTC Touch Cruise) that I've actually disabled them.
This new version, though, is hard to look at. The graphical buttons, which were nice and smooth with their rendered text, seem to have been replaced by live text -- or something, because the text is jaggy, which makes the letters difficult to read on my QVGA device.
So, a step backwards -- oops.
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