A while back I stumbled upon this other alternative text entry application called TenGO. I personally haven’t tried it yet, but the demo on their site is compelling:

http://www.tengo.net/tengo_demo.html

What’s nice about it is that it’s a regular QWERTY keyboard layout. The difference is that they divided up the letters into 6 “keys” instead of 26. Then the predictive text brings up a list of possible words to choose from. Supposedly it’s easy to add words to the dictionary. This program is also cheaper than Fitaly at $24.95.

It’s a very interesting concept because you can limit your stylus taps to a central region once you get used to the system, which allows you to type faster without having to learn a completely different key layout. I was partial to MessageEase a long time ago when I was using Sony Clies.

I just wish that there were PDAs (non-phone PDAs) that had keyboards! I would be perfectly happy with a Windows Mobile PDA with WiFi and a keyboard for quicker text entry (nice mobile RSS reader). But I guess a Dell Axim x50v with TenGO could be comparable…