Windows Phone Thoughts: Ever Tried The WordLogic Keyboard?

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I know we've already spent some time discussing our favorite input methods for our Pocket PCs, but here's one that only a few people have heard of. The WordLogic Keyboard, while based on the typical QWERTRY layout, offers a couple of new twists to text entry.



First, this keyboard provides a bit more predictive capabilities than an ordinary keyboard. Like the standard keyboard, it suggests completed words as you type in letters; however, it also highlights individual keyboard characters as you type, suggesting the next most-likely character you'll need. Second, the WordLogic keyboard allows "chunking," a streamlined way to create compound words. By using a simple gesture, the user can "attach" words to each other, creating words such as "forefinger" or "government-supported."

Other features include:

• Rapid text entry using a soft-keyboard, no additional hardware to carry
• Colors indicate when to stop typing - red means stop
• 5 word chunks are predicted at a time
• 5 letters are predicted reducing search time for the next key
• Gesturing technology allows long words to be assembled rapidly
• Fully supports left-handed users with a special mode
• Supports multiple dictionaries at once (for example English and French at once!)
• Supports special dictionaries for medical, legal and other business needs
• Desktop tool allows personal words to be collected from documents, emails, tasks and other respositories
• Words can be added on-the-fly as you type them
• Support for over 45,000 words per dictionary in a compact size

I decided to give this a try for a little while and liked it. I'm not sure that highlighting the next most-likely character is important to most people with keyboarding experience, but I can see the chunking as being useful for people saddled with inputting technical or jargon-riddled text. I also like how easy it is to add new words to the user dictionary.

So, now I believe I've tried just about all of the add-in input methods available:

• AccessPanel
• Calligrapher
• Compaq Folding Keyboard
• FITALY
• Stowaway and other full-size keyboards
• Thumb-pad keyboard
• WordLogic

Have I missed any (that aren't experimental, like speech recognition)?