CooTek have released a Tablet version of their popular Touchpal Keyboard.
The new keyboard will support their Sliding Input, TouchPal Curve which has become popular in their Phone Keyboard version and also offers various cool features.
The new Keyboard for Tablets has a Smart Split layout allowing the user to type with both hands, i.e, while holding the tablet in landscape mode of course. It also comes with auto correction for spelling errors, and contextual prediction, and most importantly backing up & restoring the user dictionary on to your Tablet’s SD Card. And you also have the usual Voice Input mode, support for multiple languages.
Anther useful feature worth mentioning is the Gesture shortcuts, you can slide up/down a letter to switch between Numbers and Punctuations.
You can also customize the keyboard to your liking with various themes, which have been optimized for tablets.
A list of the keyboard’s features:
- Smart split layout.
- HD themes optimized for Tablets.
- TouchPal Curve® sliding input.
- Customizable keyboard appearance.
- Contextual prediction.
- Auto correct.
- Toolbar plugins.
- Gesture shortcuts.
- Multi languages support.
- Backup/restore user dictionary.
- Voice input (Android 2.2+).
You can download TouchPal Keyboard for Tablet for free from:
[app]com.cootek.smartinputv5.tablet[/app]
This is a great free alternative for the Swype Keyboard. Oddly though it is compatible with Phones as well.