Advertised as providing “the best typing experience ever”, FingerKeyboard2 is an XDA Developers release, a custom Soft Input Panel mainly for WVGA and WQVGA devices. Read on for a list of features, supported languages and installation information.

Features as provided by the authors:

- one of the most (if not the most) touch screen finger-friendly keyboards out there

- great looking

- supports both portrait and landscape modes

- supports WVGA & WQVGA (limited VGA support)

- supports different language layouts

- has a numeric layout for fast typing of numbers

- supports selectable color schemes

- supports Windows Mobile Contact name suggestions

- supports Windows Mobile Word suggestions (DOES NOT SUPPORT T9!)

- has excellent layout of buttons in both portrait and landscape

- many cool functions: text selection, cut+copy+paste, home, end, single word deletion, single line deletion, whole text deletion etc.

- preset emoticons for fast typing of smile-faces

- preset web browsing shortcuts for fast typing of web and e-mail addresses

- highly customizable (requires editing txt files, tough)

- supports click sounds when typing

- has a configuration utility that allows selecting lanuages and color schemes

- now comes in a .cab file for easier installation

Languages included (WVGA and WQVGA):

- English

- Russian

- Romanian

- Croatian

- Bulgarian

- French

- German

- Polish

- Greek (multiversion!)

- Danish

- Italian

- Norwegian

- Arabic

- Hebrew

- Hungarian

You need to install the cab to Device, followed by a Soft Reset. The new SIP you’ve just installed can be found in the “Other input options” section of Windows’ SIP selector (the small icon at the bottom-middle of your screen).

Unfortunately, VGA support for FingerKeyboard2 is limited to containing only English, Polish and a numeric pad. Nevertheless, if you own a VGA device and would like to give FingerKeyboard2 a try, install it as usual, then install the cab file found here.

Give us your feedback! Do you really find this to be “the best typing experience ever”?