I may favor many aspects of Android over other mobile platforms, but there’s one area that sucks pretty bad all around — soft (onscreen) keyboards. The iPhone’s keyboard is still the one to beat. Android’s default keyboard as well as just about every other keyboard I’ve tried are marginal at best. Of course, 3rd part options such as Swype do go a long way into introducing new and innovative methods of inputing characters on a screen. ...

After spending slightly over one year with an iPhone, I have become pretty well versed in the world of soft keyboards. Though with my Moto DROID I’m finding myself using the real keyboard more often than not. Part of the reason is that I just like the real keyboard better. Chalk up a second reason to the soft keyboard in Android being just “ok”. The great thing about Android however is that it’s open to be everything and anything you want it to...

I know. It’s Monday morning. It’s hard enough to wake up and crawl in to work let alone actually focus on small organizations and patterns of text on a screen and try to even remotely grab any of the information. Besides, we all know the saying: “A picture is worth a thousand words”. So we’ll give you just that. The BlackBerry Storm 2 was spotted recently getting some more hands and eyes on time with Benez Blog (German). While there...