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TouchPal Keyboard is a replacement keyboard for the standard on-screen keyboard that comes with all Android phones. It has a few nice tricks up its sleeve that we'd like to share with you.
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What's so great about TouchPal Keyboard?
There's one main feature that we feel sets TouchPal Keyboard apart from the standard Android keyboard and it' something that blind and partially sighted users frequently ask us about at our Phone Watch events. With TouchPal Keyboard, you can choose to use a twelve key T9 keypad with predictive text rather than a full QWERTY keyboard if you wish. The benefit of this is the keys are much larger to see for partially sighted users, as there's less of them on the screen. You can use the twelve key keypad in both portrait and landscape mode if you wish, or you can adjust the settings so you get a twelve key keypad in portrait mode and a full QWERTY keyboard in landscape mode.
However you choose to setup TouchPal Keyboard, when used in conjunction with the Handcent SMS app, a much improved messaging system for partially sighted users can be created for Android phones.
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Posted at: 1/12/2011 12:00 PM by Andrew Ronksley