Tuesday, May 1, 2012

RIM shows off BlackBerry 10 touch keyboard with gesture support

[![BB 10 Keyboard][1] ][2]

What's the best thing about the BlackBerry platform? Most would say it's the keyboard, which continues to be world-class in the company's most recent handsets, like the [Bold 9900][3]. One of the big questions on the fans of the BB faithful in the new operating system was how the company could re-create that magic on a touchscreen. Well, Thorsten Heins just showed us how [on-stage at BlackBerry World][4], showing off a new, smart touch keyboard that is said to adapt to your touches. It has elements of predictive text, like many other keyboards, but it also relies heavily on gestures. For example, to get to numbers and special characters, just swipe upward from below and the keyboard layout changes. You can swipe up and down to cycle through these layouts and, like [SwiftKey][5], swipe left to delete whole words. It doesn't exactly blow many of those aftermarket Android options out of the water but it certainly looks like it could be among one of the best stock keyboards out there.

[RIM shows off BlackBerry 10 touch keyboard with gesture support][2] originally appeared on [Engadget][6] on Tue, 01 May 2012 09:44:00 EDT. Please see our [terms for use of feeds][7].

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