Google aren’t doing much laurel-resting when it comes to Android. Nope, the big G is currently beavering away on a new build of the mobile operating system dubbed “Cupcake”, and pictures of the new virtual keyboard have just popped up online.
Google is lagging way behind the iPhone’s wonderful predictive text tech when it comes to on-screen keyboards. On the T-Mobile G1, this doesn’t really matter too much, as the device has a proper physical keyboard as well – but on future Android phones, with no real keyboards… well, it’s vital that Google nail the virtual keyboard.
And while the screengrab of the keyboard looks nice enough, Android developer Arron La says that there’s currently no haptic feedback (or if there is, he didn’t feel it!) and that, because the phone does not auto-rotate you have to type in portrait mode. With no auto-corrections, that makes typing tricky.
Hopefully Google will sort this out in time for Cupcake’s full launch – Arron La has been testing a development version, after all.
Arron La (via Wired Gadget Lab)
