{"id":163,"date":"2010-11-11T17:52:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T15:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/8pen-keyboard-on-android-how-does-it-stack-up\/"},"modified":"2010-11-11T17:52:07","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T15:52:07","slug":"8pen-keyboard-on-android-how-does-it-stack-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/8pen-keyboard-on-android-how-does-it-stack-up\/","title":{"rendered":"8pen keyboard on Android &#8212; how does it stack up."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Earlier this week the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appbrain.com\/app\/8pen\/com.threequbits.android.eightpen\">8pen keyboard<\/a> went free for Android and I decided to give it a try. Below is a screenshot of the keyboard in typing a tweet in Tweetdeck.<\/div>\n<div><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/snap20101111_172339.png?resize=480%2C800\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"800\" \/><\/div>\n<div>You will notice that all the letters is in capitals, that is because I am starting a new sentence and it automatically put the keyboard in capitals.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The most difficult part is remembering where all the letters are and in what direction you have to move your finger. &nbsp;To type an A you start at the center, move to the right block and then top block and then back to the center. For the R you will move your finger across 2 lines (the red and blue ones) and then back to the center. &nbsp;For O you will move across the yellow line and then back to the center.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>What you do not see on the input screen above is that as you type, word prediction will be offered and it works fairly well. &nbsp;It even have voice input if you have that enabled on your phone. &nbsp;I have been using Swype for a while and will have to see if I can get the same speed out of this keyboard as with Swype.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If you running Android then head over to the Market and give it a try.<\/div>\n<div class=\"appbrain-app\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chart.apis.google.com\/chart?cht=qr&amp;chs=150x150&amp;chl=http:\/\/www.appbrain.com\/app\/com.threequbits.android.eightpen?install=web\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week the 8pen keyboard went free for Android and I decided to give it a try. Below is a screenshot of the keyboard in typing a tweet in Tweetdeck. You will notice that all the letters is in capitals, that is because I am starting a new sentence and it automatically put the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1SHVw-2D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}