TouchPal for Android will Release

CooTek · 06-30-2009, 10:24 PM

TouchPal is a finger-friendly virtual keyboard on touchscreen. You can easily input 40-60 words per minute with your thumb on TouchPal. It has a lot of unique features such as mistyping correction, mixed language input, quick symbols and finger gestures that makes you type fast. It supports 3 different layout (Full-QWERTY, T+ Half QWERTY and Phone KeyPad), both portrait and landscape mode, and more than 20 languages. TouchPal won the GSMA Mobile Innovation Global Award 2009 by its creative and user-friendly design.

Welcome to review ,andif you need any support from us please feel free to contact with us . Email:cootek@gmail.com
TouchPal for Android will Release next Friday,Now we invite you to be our Beta Test.And you will probably be the very first one to review it on the Internet. If you'd like to be our beta test please contact with us viacootek@gmail.com

wilbur · 06-30-2009, 11:57 PM

I've been after a better keyboard for ages - i used to love the touchpad keyboard on my vario II
any idea when it will be available

CooTek · 07-02-2009, 03:43 AM

TouchPal for Android demo video:

dkaufman1 · 07-02-2009, 09:00 AM

Very interesting, thanks for posting this. Keep us updated.

CooTek · 07-02-2009, 11:11 PM

Thanks for your support ,and every welcome to review TouchPal .If you want to know more about TouchPal you can contact with us and email is cootek@gmail.com

Mansn · 07-03-2009, 12:32 AM

Wow, that's sweet. I love the look of your keyboard and as soon as I have an android phone I will try the demo and definitely purchase it if I like it :-)

xufuchang · 07-03-2009, 03:06 AM

wow...that's great....is it free or paid?

CooTek · 07-03-2009, 07:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xufuchang

wow...that's great....is it free or paid?

We will release it on Android Market next week. It will be free for the first few months. The final price hasn’t been decided, but if you download it during the free period, you won’t have to worry about the price. J

Mansn · 07-04-2009, 02:41 AM

Do you have a video displaying the half qwerty keyboard in action?

CooTek · 07-07-2009, 12:19 AM

Currently we don't have half qwerty demo video

badabing · 07-07-2009, 05:04 PM

Really nice.. I used to be a Touchpal PRO fan when I was using a WinMo device.

If only I can transfer my old (now unused) paid licence to Android

Can't wait to try it.

CooTek · 07-08-2009, 01:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by badabing

Really nice.. I used to be a Touchpal PRO fan when I was using a WinMo device.

If only I can transfer my old (now unused) paid licence to Android

Can't wait to try it.

Thanks for your consistantly support for TouchPal.We will release it on Android Market next week. It will be free for the first few months.So you can download during that period ,then you will not need to pay for the licence fee .This strategy is inorder to give the benefit to our supporters.

TopDog · 07-08-2009, 01:50 AM

Looks cool!

How about international letters like æ ä ø ö å ?

CooTek · 07-08-2009, 04:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TopDog

Looks cool!

How about international letters like æ ä ø ö å ?

The accent letters will be fully supported. You can also refer to the demo video, “Accent Letter” part, in which you can press&hold a key to expand and select accent letters.

xufuchang · 07-08-2009, 06:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CooTek

We will release it on Android Market next week. It will be free for the first few months. The final price hasn’t been decided, but if you download it during the free period, you won’t have to worry about the price. J

of course it can type chinese right? pinyin?

badabing · 07-08-2009, 06:54 AM

Also, dont forget a QWERTY French Canadian keyboard plz, no AZERTY, it drives me crazy !!

CooTek · 07-09-2009, 12:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xufuchang

of course it can type chinese right? pinyin?

next week we just release English version ,but you will not for a long time to test Chinese version .

isma · 07-09-2009, 01:10 AM

On the video I have not seen spanish support, but on your other versions it appears as supported. I hope it so. I am expecting your release a lot

Huntsman · 07-09-2009, 01:51 PM

This is great news. I loved TouchPal on my Wing and was dissapointed that there was not something similar when I switched to the G1. Now, I think I will be ignoring the main keyboard once again.

Can't wait for the release.

CooTek · 07-09-2009, 09:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Huntsman

This is great news. I loved TouchPal on my Wing and was dissapointed that there was not something similar when I switched to the G1. Now, I think I will be ignoring the main keyboard once again.

Can't wait for the release.

Thank you for your support TouchPal constantly,and your support is a great power encourge us to do better and better .

CooTek · 07-09-2009, 10:15 PM

TouchPal for Android will Release next Friday,Now we invite you to be our Beta Test.And you will probably be the very first one to review it on the Internet. If you'd like to be our beta test please contact with us via cootek@gmail.com

xufuchang · 07-16-2009, 07:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CooTek

next week we just release English version ,but you will not for a long time to test Chinese version .

i want chinese version with pinyin and handwriting yeahh...

badabing · 07-16-2009, 10:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CooTek

TouchPal for Android will Release next Friday,Now we invite you to be our Beta Test.And you will probably be the very first one to review it on the Internet. If you'd like to be our beta test please contact with us via cootek@gmail.com

D-day tomorrow !! Hope it's almost ready you'll be able to get some sleep tonight

CooTek · 07-17-2009, 06:14 AM

Thank for all of your support,we have got many feedback from our beta test .So inorder to proivde you a better input solution ,we may delay the release day to the next coming week .

hamder · 07-20-2009, 04:49 PM

Will you release a danish version at any point?

CooTek · 07-21-2009, 09:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hamder

Will you release a danish version at any point?

We plan to support Danish in the near future.

akex · 07-22-2009, 07:07 AM

Seems great

, just waiting for it.

CooTek · 07-26-2009, 09:22 PM

Thanks for all of your support.

samuelmaskell · 07-26-2009, 11:20 PM

I sent in my thoughts a while ago but I never got a reply. I don't know if you got it..

CooTek · 07-27-2009, 01:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by samuelmaskell

I sent in my thoughts a while ago but I never got a reply. I don't know if you got it..

Hi Samuelmaskell
Who and when you sent ,and about what thoughts.Thanks a lot

samuelmaskell · 07-27-2009, 11:59 PM

I was a beta tester for touchpal. After a day or two I sent my thoughts from the address samuelmaskell@gmail.com. here is the original email.

Hi,
I've been using the touchpal keyboard all day today and I thought I would share my first impressions.

Things I like:
Easy to switch keyboards
Easy to change language
multi-language support(though I have not tried it because I only have one language pack currently)
Easy access to symbols by swiping down
Prediction of next word
Little to no lag

Things I would like to see:
Haptic/vibration feedback
Double tap space bar for period
Larger keys in landscape mode
Prediction for punctuation(I often hit comma instead of L and it never corrects it)
Incorrect key prediction on compact qwerty(the keys may be bigger but I still hit the wrong one occasionally) - this is included in HTC's keyboard
Bigger dictionary(not bad but HTC's is bigger on non-google branded phones)
Press and swipe sideways on symbol key for a few quick options like on HTC keyboard

Overall it is quite nice but there are a few things I would like to see. Right now I would say that it is fairly good bit it has the potential to be much better. I will keep you posted if I think of anything else that I would like to see.
Thanks,
Samuel Maskell

hope that helps a little. I'd like to see this thing go far.

DanGrover · 07-28-2009, 01:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by samuelmaskell

I was a beta tester for touchpal. After a day or two I sent my thoughts from the address samuelmaskell@gmail.com.

Out of interest, are you still using it now? I'm currently using BigKeys - the annoying thing is that it doesn't predict words or any of the fancy features, but it's basically completely lag-free, which is what killed the normal keyboard for me. Also, I kept hitting "." when I meant to hit the space bar, though I don't do that on BigKeys. If TouchPal can offer a lag-free solution with the predictive functions of the Android keyboard, I'll be all over it.

CooTek · 07-28-2009, 11:17 PM

We will have the following improvement in our public release:
1. Support G1 hard keyboard input (and the soft keyboard won’t pop up)
2. New landscape mode with bigger keys
3. Support user-defined words
4. Haptic feedback (vibration mode)
5. Other bug fixes

samuelmaskell · 07-29-2009, 02:38 AM

Dan - no, I haven't really been using it.. mostly because I really like haptic feedback

CooTek - that sounds great but I don't see it on the market. It might be because I'm in Canada. Could you send me the apk?

badabing · 07-29-2009, 06:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by samuelmaskell

CooTek - that sounds great but I don't see it on the market. It might be because I'm in Canada. Could you send me the apk?

It's not out yet... Only in Beta for now... It should be out in a few days I think.

samuelmaskell · 07-29-2009, 01:22 PM

Ahh I see. I thought it was going to be out a week or two ago. Oh well. Hopefully it'll be out soon.

sadbyte · 07-29-2009, 05:01 PM

CooTek - sounds like a great touch keyboard replacement. I don't see it on the market. I'm in Canada. Could you send me the apk? Thanks

DanGrover · 07-29-2009, 05:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sadbyte

CooTek - sounds like a great touch keyboard replacement. I don't see it on the market. I'm in Canada. Could you send me the apk? Thanks

It's not out yet, and CooTek says that it should be free for the first month or two, so when it's out you should be able to see it in Canada Land anyway.

Mr Cootek, any news on when it will be out?

sadbyte · 07-29-2009, 05:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DanGrover

It's not out yet, and CooTek says that it should be free for the first month or two, so when it's out you should be able to see it in Canada Land anyway.

Mr Cootek, any news on when it will be out?

Thanks for the heads up !

staceystars · 07-30-2009, 08:15 AM

can't find the app anywhere on the market? Any advice? x

badabing · 07-30-2009, 08:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by staceystars

can't find the app anywhere on the market? Any advice? x

HEYYYYYYYY..... Can you guys PLEASE read the previous posts ?? Is it SO HARD ?

It's the 3rd time in this very topic this question is asked and answered.

staceystars · 07-30-2009, 08:37 AM

I did read it.. But I am on my phone so things can be missed. Sorry for asking!

samuelmaskell · 07-30-2009, 10:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DanGrover

It's not out yet, and CooTek says that it should be free for the first month or two, so when it's out you should be able to see it in Canada Land anyway.

Mr Cootek, any news on when it will be out?

Hopefully.. there have been some problems though. We can't even get all the free apps. No idea why but it's really starting up tick me off.

dkaufman1 · 07-30-2009, 11:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by staceystars

I did read it.. But I am on my phone so things can be missed. Sorry for asking!

I hope you don't judge all forum users by the reply you got. Stick around and keep asking. Welcome.

badabing · 07-30-2009, 11:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dkaufman1

I hope you don't judge all forum users by the reply you got. Stick around and keep asking. Welcome.

Sorry about it but it was the 3rd time this question was posted... And even the thread title says Will Release...

dkaufman1 · 07-30-2009, 12:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by badabing

Sorry about it but it was the 3rd time this question was posted... And even the thread title says Will Release...

I fully understand your point of view. With so many new users (you are only 20 something posts so far) it is important to teach. Better to not even answer this person.

In a Phandroid post about Google Voice nearly every person asked for an invite. Despite the fact it posted multiple times that invites are not like when Gmail was released, only Google can provide you with one. No viral, send an invite options at this time. Eventually I just stopped reading that and posting there.

I welcome you as well to our community and hope you enjoy Android and chatting about it too.

badabing · 07-30-2009, 08:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dkaufman1

I fully understand your point of view. With so many new users (you are only 20 something posts so far) it is important to teach. Better to not even answer this person.

In a Phandroid post about Google Voice nearly every person asked for an invite. Despite the fact it posted multiple times that invites are not like when Gmail was released, only Google can provide you with one. No viral, send an invite options at this time. Eventually I just stopped reading that and posting there.

I welcome you as well to our community and hope you enjoy Android and chatting about it too.

I agree with you but for me (new here but been on other forums for a while), rule #1 is to search before asking, let alone reading a thread and it's title

I really like this place btw !

CooTek · 07-30-2009, 09:23 PM

Many thanks for all of your support.If everything goes well ,the public release day will be in early August.

RedMist · 07-31-2009, 06:39 AM

I'm very much looking forward to this, it looks awesome. I wish there was a way of knowing when it's available, like an email notification. But I'll keep checking Welcome to CooTek - TouchPal, an innovative soft keyboard

Alltheway3 · 08-02-2009, 01:31 PM

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this nearly redundant with the Hero keyboard?