My Asus Transformer Prime arrived last Friday, and my first Android tablet is truly a thing of beauty. After two years of using iOS on an iPhone and iPad 2, getting up to speed with Android 4.0 is going to involve some adjustments and a significant learning curve. The app I’m sharing here suggests that the investment in learning will pay rich dividends! Unfortunately, it’s an app that is not available for iOS.
FlexT9 is a powerful and versatile keyboard app for anyone who needs alternative text input methods on a phone or tablet. It’s a four-in-one keyboard that offers speech-to-text, handwriting recognition, and tracing, in addition to ordinary touch typing. There is also very good word completion, as well as word prediction.
FlexT9 is beautifully designed, and it can be set as the default keyboard on an Android device so that it is available whenever writing of any kind is required. At $4.99, FlexT9 is not free, but this is by far the best option I have seen and tested for anyone who finds conventional text input challenging. It is noteworthy that a writer can combine text input methods.
Now here’s a quick video overview of FlexT9 in action. It’s especially worth watching if you’re not sure what I mean by “tracing” for text input. This is an input meth0d that significantly increases the speed of my own text input.
