As lucky US punters get their paws on the new T-Mobile G1 Android, one annoyance keeps cropping up. Why the hell do they have to pull out the built-in keyboard to type even the smallest thing, making it impossible to type in portrait mode?
Apparently there’s no virtual keyboard in order to encourage use of the hardware keyboard. But that can be a pain if you want to type something quick with one hand.
So you’ll be relieved to hear that the Android Roadmap sets out plans for a soft keyboard in Q1 of 2009, including “a dictionary of suggestions, and a suggestion algorithm”. That means only two to five months of getting annoyed with your shiny new phone then…
Out 30th Oct | Free on £40 contract | T-Mobile (via HTC Source)
