Compared to your full-sized desktop keyboard, typing on your phone’s tiny software keyboard just plain sucks. Luckily, Android users can choose from a myriad of different keyboards, meaning you can find one that caters to your typing style. Here’s how to find the right one for you.
Adding a keyboard to an Android tablet should give you the advantage of two devices in one, but Asus’ Eee Pad Transformer didn’t quite make the grade when I took it for a spin.
Android only: ThickButtons’ keyboard slightly enlarges the letters you’re most likely to type next. It’s a neat idea, but you might miss a standard landscape mode, or Android’s voice-to-text powers. Luckily, both are present in the latest ThickButtons update.
The number pad on your keyboard — if it was included on your keyboard — is much a more efficient means of numerical input, but it’s often ignored. TypeOnline offers free lessons to help you make the most of your number pad.
