Filed under: Text, Windows Mobile, Commercial
TenGO Alternative Input panel for Pocket PCs
[Update: Our commenters are the best! In the comments below, Tory mentions that TenGO offers a free version, which is essentially the 1.0 version of their software. While I can attest that there is enough improvement in 2.0 to justify the purchase, 1.0 is a darn good product as well, and if you can get it for free now, I'd definitely recommend doing so! Thanks Tory!]I use a Pocket PC very regularly, and the one thing that I've always had trouble with is fast text entry. The built-in text entry tools are okay, but have subtle flaws that made my experience with them very sub-par. For example the transcription engine, while quite good at writing recognition considering the constraints of the platform (nobody's expecting Tablet PC quality handwriting recognition) is very hampered by the small size of the screen - particularly with somebody with handwriting like mine. Letter recognition, which is popular amongst ex-Palm users, sort of leaves me cold, and the soft keyboard is simply that - a keyboard, with no added functionality to make it easier to use on a small screen.
TenGO is a soft keyboard add-in for Pocket PCs (and other platforms) that adds some logic to the keyboard that makes it astoundingly easier to use. Anyone that has used the T9 text input method on mobile phones will grok what TenGO is doing very quickly.
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