Fingertouch Pro Keyboard released by Teksoft

[neilm]

Teksoft have just released V2 of their popular and fully featured Soft Input Panel ( or keyboard as it's better known!)

Download it from Teksoft

Compatibility
Fingertouch Professional 2.0 is compatible with:
- Pocket PC devices, running Windows Mobile
- Windows Mobile 4.0 OS (including Pocket PC 2003 and Pocket PC 2003 SE)
- Windows Mobile 5.0 OS
- Windows Mobile 6.0 OS
- Supports SQUARE screens: 240x240, 320x320 and 480x480
- Supports QVGA screens: 240x320 and 320x240
- Supports VGA screens: 480x640 and 640x480

Fingertouch Professional 2.0 is RealVGA compatible, it supports 96x96 DPI and 128x128 DPI.


Here are some of its features:
- Fingertouch 2.0 comes with 5 layouts, meaning you have 5 keyboards in 1: {classic keyboard}, {smart keyboard (predictable)}, {phone keyboard (phone-like)}, {calculator/numeric keyboard} and {the successful big keyboard (predictable)}.
- Fast text input with our patented technologies:
- Embedded fT9 Technology, this is the Teksoft Patented, T9 like technology included in Fingertouch Professional
- Embedded UltraKeyboard Technology, for assigning various actions to text commands (triggers)
- Configurable layout, including keyboard Skin, text font, size and color
- Drag and drop on keyboard for changing the keyboard size, or for customizing the position of the keys
- Magnifier, that can help you better see the keys you are pressing
- Configurable fT9 parameters, for easy use including finger easy interface
- Gestures, you can slide over your keyboard to send Backspace, space, Enter or upper case letters to your documents
- Ultrakeyboard advanced configuration panel for defining your custom action and triggers.

See a features comparison chart Here between Fingertouch V1, which is now free of charge, and V2 which costs €14.95

[neilm]

For existing users who purchased a copy of Fingertouch V1, the upgrade price to FT Pro is €4.95.

Follow This Link for details.

[johnston411]

That's very reasonable.

When i had the ameo i used it quite a bit.

[waveydavey]

How do you guys rate it compared with the new SIPs out there?

[neilm]

I think it has a lot of good features, but ultimately I tend to come back to the default keyboard.

FT has 5 different layouts selectable easily, and now has a draggable height feature; for me its failing (as with its competitors) is the faffing around if your desired word isn't in its dictionary. FT does seem to omit some words you might expect- for instance "keyboard" and "PC" are not present, and even adding them as custom words doesn't see them given as options next time. Touchpal has similar idiosyncrasies (??!) which I find take more time to correct than simply type without the 'assistance'
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[waveydavey]

I must admit I find the default dictionary limitations a pain.

[johnston411]

on the ameo i ended up using touchpal but that was because i preferred the layout.

For the big screen of the ameo though i found it to work well enough for me to ditch the hardware keyboard.

For the smaller devices though the touch keypad wins for me in portrait and hardware keyboard in landscape

[neilm]

Yes- I still find TouchPal the best of the 3rd party SIPs. I like the ability to 'slide down' the root of a word and select derivatives quickly. It's dictionary is more comprehensive as well, and seem more intelligent at contextualising its results.

[windows]

I'll have to re-take a look at this once I get a spare second!