Windows Phone Thoughts: Typango and the Digit-al Keyboard

http://www.pocketpcaddict.com/modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=7

Richard Padgett and Pocket PC Addict have published and article on Typango, what appears to be an onscreen thumb keyboard. I must admit that this is a rather curious contraption, which might be the Holy Grail of input options (ease of thumb keyboard with out the hassle), or it might be the worst thing to ever be installed on my Jornada (part of the appeal of the thumb keyboard is that it is a physical hardware thing.) There’s no way for me to tell right now, but the idea is intresting nonetheless.

“Recently an entire crop of articles has sprung up on the various Pocket PC websites concerning text input on PDAs and why they all stink. Like some kind of information virus it was the topic de jour for the nearly famous Jeff Kirvin and a few others provoking blustering endorsements and debate among users as to which input method is best. On Screen Keyboards, Single Character input, Handwriting recognition, thumboards, external keyboards…”