Utility
Touchpal
Touchpal is an advanced soft keyboard that will significantly improve your typing speed on the myTouch. It comes with several advanced and intuitive features that are a leap above the default keyboard on your myTouch. This myTouch application offers gesture controls, predictive text, several different layout choices, and a slew of other small features that make typing on the myTouch much easier and faster. For instance, to type a capital letter, all you have to do is press a letter and swipe up. Similarly, swiping down on a key will enter the symbol or alternate character corresponding to that letter. You can switch between layouts by swiping left or right across the whole keyboard.Â
 
This award-winning application comes with four language packs for now (you’ll need to download these separately from the main application on the Android market). The four include English, French, Chinese, and German for now with more on the way. Once you download the main application, you’ll need to install at least one language pack. If you install more than one, you can go to a “mixed” language setting that allows you to seamlessly type in both languages whenever you like. This soft keyboard has amazingly good predictive capabilities, beyond anything else available for Android phones at the moment. Needlessly to say it works perfectly with all capabilities in landscape mode. Touchpal is free for the moment on the Android Market, but is unlikely to remain so for too long.
