Thursday, January 6, 2011

Submitted by Joe from Hanover, NH:


8pen Android Typing App Reinvents The Keyboard

Does it pain you to type on your smartphone's tiny keyboard? Are your messages error-laden? Do you love your phone's touch screen--but long for a physical QWERTY keyboard? 8pen, a typing application for Android devices, might be the solution you seek.

As 8Pen's creators point out, the original keyboard was made to fit two hands comfortably. But today we frequently find ourself typing on tiny multitouch devices, barely a few inches wide, with screens that are too small to type on comfortably, even with a single finger.

Aiming to provide a faster and more accurate means of composing text on a small touch screen, 8pen rejiggers the traditional keyboard layout and separates letters into four quadrants, arranged around a central point that functions as the space bar.

Read the rest of it here.

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