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Get that iPhone keyboard look on Windows Mobile
It was just a matter of time before we saw more iPhone inspired Windows Mobile mods. While we won't see a hack to let your phone automatically change from landscape to portrait when you rotate the screen anytime soon (it doesn't have the hardware), you can make your on-screen keyboard a bit more iPhone-like.The folks over at XDA Developers have released a skin for Happy Tapping Keyboard that looks like the iPhone keyboard. While one of the main things iPhone users complain about is the lack of a physical keyboard, its on-screen keyboard is a bit easier to use for thumb typing than the default Windows Mobile keyboard.
This is just a skin, so don't expect Apple's predictive text system. Windows Mobile's predictive text will kick in, offering suggestions as you type, but it won't give you any leeway when you hit the wrong key as the iPhone sometimes will.
[via jkOnTheRun]
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Subscribe to commentsTempusFugitJul 13th 2007 8:58AM
"While we won't see a hack to let your phone change from landscape to portrait anytime soon (it doesn't have the hardware), you can make your on-screen keyboard a bit more iPhone-like."
I thought this sounded a little bit ambigious - Windows Mobiles phones can easily change from landscape to portrait by tapping an icon, pressing a button, hitting a key (it's customisable), or even by hardware (for example, my phone when you fold up the keyboard it goes portrait, when you open it out to look like a laptop it goes landscape). Therefore to say that Windows Mobile phones cant go landscape is a little ambigious as it's not strictly true.
What is true is that the change doesn't happen automatically in the same way it does on an iPhone, but it didn't sound like that was what was being said.
Brad LinderJul 13th 2007 9:00AM
Whoops, that was what I meant to say. I change my PDA from portrait to landscape all the time, but it won't work automatically. I'll update the post to reflect that.
TempusFugitJul 13th 2007 9:55AM
Ah, I see - thanks for the clarification :) - I must admit I was a little confused when I read that previously, as even my ancient PocketPC from 2000 could change from landscape to portrait. I guessed it might have been the automatic switch but I wasn't sure. Sorry for the misunderstanding
Brad LinderJul 13th 2007 10:02AM
No, thank you. If you hadn't pointed out my mistake a lot of readers who do not have Windows Mobile devices would have been mislead. While early Pocket PCs needed 3rd party applications to switch from landscape to portrait, it's a feature that Microsoft has been including for years now. The iPhone's automatic rotate feature is kind of neat, but it's not really that much more useful.
VitaminCMJul 13th 2007 5:18PM
Oh, Great!
Now I can take the worst thing on the iPhone and break what is good on my phone.
No thanks.
Give me that photo scroller swipe thing and I'm there.