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Video demo of new on-screen keyboard for T-Mobile G1

22 December 2008 by Staff Editor


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With the new Android “cupcake” update there are going to be a lot of additions including video recording. What we did not know was the cupcake branch of Android which reportedly was made available a software keyboard on Nokia’s line of Internet Tablets.

A video of the on-screen keyboard working on the T-Mobile G1 has popped up on YouTube and we just had to share. We cannot tell you how excited we are to see that there is a full-blown working on-screen keyboard on the T-Mobile G1. This means that you wont have to slide out the keyboard to message someone and say hi, or quickly search for the nearest burger joint.

The video shows the black full QWERTY keyboard being used in the Google search bar at the Homs screen and throughout the native browser. From what we can see the keyboard is very responsive and easy to use. Laid out much like the keyboard on the iPhone it seems to work well with your fingertips. While we cant vouch for the authenticity of this video, it certainly makes up excited. For now this will remain an unconfirmed rumor.

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  1. This keyboard is used on the Nokia Internet Tablets? Sure doesn't look like the one I have on my N800, that's for sure. Possibly similar code, but if the user experience is similar to that on my N800, that's an improvement over not having a VK, but from personal experience, this sure could so with an auto-correct / intelligent text engine.
  2. damn the date on the phone said oct 2008...
    hopefully we get it soon
  3. Looks like engadget have picked this video up from here:

    http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/22/c...n-t-mobile-g1/
  4. Yeah, but did anyone notice how laggy it was running?
  5. Probably only because getting it to run is buggy. The person who compiled it had to fix a few parts of the code to even get it to flash, and it doesnt have gmail IM or a market, so right now its just proof of concept.
  6. That explains. Mate this with Apple's intelligent word correction engine, and you have a winner

    If they get this right, the future of Android on touchscreen-only devices is pretty much secured
  7. I just like how the letters look like they're popping up into the browser.
  8. I hope this is real, it would be very helpful!
  9. wonder if it can easily rotate to landscape with the accelerometer? If not i am sure someone will come up with it very soon.....

    wish i knew how to code programs so i could help etc...... is it hard to learn? I am pretty good with computers......
  10. Nice, doesn't look half-bad!
  11. Interesting -- the video shows an unlocked G1 running on a service provider in Thailand.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by alansoon View Post
    Interesting -- the video shows an unlocked G1 running on a service provider in Thailand.
    What's interesting about that? An unlocked phone would work anywhere in the world that has a valid SIM on a network that supports the radio frequencies used by the G1
  13. The onscreen keyboard would tend to go with the unconfirmed, keyboardless G2 rumor.
  14. The keyboard may be unconfirmed, but the bad spelling and grammar in the post is not.. try proofreading before you go live- or at least run it through a spellchecker
  15. Glad to hear the good old G1 CREAK ! !
  16. That's not a 'cupcake' keyboard, it's something else -- looks nice though
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by ghoonk View Post
    That explains. Mate this with Apple's intelligent word correction engine, and you have a winner

    If they get this right, the future of Android on touchscreen-only devices is pretty much secured
    I wholeheartedly aggree with that first statement. When I had an iPhone, I could be a little careless in letting my fingers/thumb fly across the keyboard. It would make so many corrections for me it was greatness.

    -omar
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