PocketCM Keyboard brings iPhone-like virtual keyboard to Windows Mobile
By Dusan Belic on Friday, August 24th, 2007 at 9:25 AM PST In Applications, Windows Mobile, iPhone
Since Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) announced the iPhone, using a touchscreen equipped phone without a stylus looks more appealing than ever. Primarily, it’s more practical. However, the problem with most touchscreen-based devices is that they not only come with a stylus, but with a virtual keyboard optimized for using it.
Thanks to the application called PocketCM Keyboard, Windows Mobile-based device owners can now add the iPhone-like virtual keyboard to their touchscreen enabled handsets and actually type sans stylus. Unlike the traditional Windows Mobile virtual keyboard, this one — and the one on the iPhone — doesn’t reacts when you press the letter on the screen. Rather, the key is triggered when your remove your finger from the screen, hence you can “preview” the letter you’re about to enter. In addition, the PocketCM Keyboard is a standard Windows Mobile Soft Input Touch (SIP) app, meaning you will be able to use it in (almost) any application.
I’m not sure whether this kind of software infringes some of the Apple’s patents, but I find it looking quite cool and above all useful. In fact, this kind of virtual keyboard should come pre-installed with HTC Touch and other all-touchscreen Windows Mobile devices.
[Via: the::unwired]
pocketCM is a nice and very LIGHT keyboard. loads quick and is very stable. whenever i reboot my at&t 8925 tilt, it reverts back to the original keyboard. i have to manually pick PocketCM keyboard again. The spell checker on pocketCM is not that great. It doesnt seem to work for me. you can try to google HTC Diamond keyboard.cab file, its good but takes up alot of memory, and hence slows down a bit, but also a very nice keyboard. I like it more than iPhone keyboard.
Good luck.