One thing Android users have always lorded over Apple users is the platform’s capability to be changed in a bunch of interesting and cutting edge ways.

Take the keyboard for example. While Apple’s keyboard is protected as being a core feature and therefore ‘out of bounds ‘ there are many other ways of entering text on Android devices, all accessible from the Android Market and most of them free.

This would be my pick for the top 5 free Android keyboards :

Hacker’s Keyboard

Telephone and tablet keyboards are not renowned for giving you simple access to any of the punctuation marks or function buttons. While this is not routinely a difficulty often you would like to do a bit more with the phone.

The Hacker’s Keyboard gives you every single key in easy-to-use keyboard sets. It looks like a ‘hard refresh ‘ of browser windows is completely possible now.

WiFi Keyboard

Why type on your tiny Android telephone keyboard if you’re at your desk and your full-size Personal computer keyboard is present.

That is one thing the creators of the WiFi keyboard marvelled and have corrected it with the release it with this ap. It uses WiFi / a USB wire to attach the phone to the computer and then ‘talks ‘ to your computer’s keyboard to make typing messages on your telephone fantastically simple.

While it is available at code.google.com it works as effectively as anything more on the market, especially for those desk jockeys that need to get a untrustworthy message when they are chained to the cubicle and their boss is breathing down their necks.

HTC IMEI keyboard

HTC know the way to put together Android phones. So it comes as little surprise that their keyboard is one of the most coveted in the tech world.

The good news is you can now install this keyboard on your own phone, no matter whether it is from HTC, Samsung, Motorola or a Chinese Android telephone. Just head to this XDA Developers thread, download it onto your personal computer and then transfer it to your Android cell telephone through a USB wire or TF card.

Adaptxt

Adaptxt is not a new piece of software on the Android phone. It’s been available on Symbian and Windows telephone for a bit. So it is a true testament to how good it operates and how good the team are behind it that it is cleaning up on Android as well .

Working as a regular tap-to-operate Android keyboard it has got a predictive text function which is described by Android cellphone users that have it as being ‘scary’.

MessageEase
The creaters of MessageEase asked the question , ‘why be tied to old methods of typing?’.

They have laid out the screen into 9 quadrants instead of the normal keyboard layout with users touching and pulling to select the letter they want.

While it might seem complicated creators have used letter frequency tests to figure out where to put the letters and regular users say it is possible to get near touch typing speeds with the system irrespective of finger size.

These are just 5 of the keyboards available for Android. Download them from the Android market install them and discover your favourite way of typing today.

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