Virtual Keyboard?

OrganizedFellow · 10-09-2008, 08:53 AM

I may have missed WHERE in that 3 page thread there is a mention of an update to Android.
As far as I know, Android is at version 1.0.
Did you find other information about a 1.1? or something higher?
I didn't find anything in that thread useful to the release of the G1.
(although I am a sucker for any good tech thread!)

As for the validity of udK, although I am not a member of their forums, I've used many of their methods, and ROMs on my Wing, Dash and most recently my Shadow.

I dig that site.

Thanks for sharing all this, but I just didn't read anywhere there that this was a possible update for anyone other than a standard HTC touchscreen phone user. Those of us waiting for the G1 will most likely choose to wait to an update by Google or TMO to get an onscreen keyboard.
I don't know about everyone else, but I doubt I'd be using a hacked Android OS on my new phone anytime soon.

benji · 10-09-2008, 10:57 AM

You're not a very good reader, of my post or the other thread. I wasn't suggesting anyone actually apply the ROM update, just pointing out there's apparently a on-screen keyboard option around the corner in addtion to the one mentioned here.

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Originally Posted by OrganizedFellow

...but I just didn't read anywhere there that this was a possible update for anyone other than a standard HTC touchscreen phone user. Those of us waiting for the G1 will most likely choose to wait to an update by Google or TMO to get an onscreen keyboard.
I don't know about everyone else, but I doubt I'd be using a hacked Android OS on my new phone anytime soon...

OrganizedFellow · 10-10-2008, 12:15 AM

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Originally Posted by benji

... take a look at the screenshots of an upcoming ROM update ...

definition of the word update (via various sources copy/paste):
1. the release of a version of the Licensed Software containing improvements and adjustments to the Licensed Software
2. to bring (a book, figures, or the like) up to date, as by adding new information or making corrections
3. bring to the latest state of technology

Bringing mention of a ROM update (as you did do) insinuates that there is a previous version that was recently made up to date with newer, better information.
You link to a thread on the XDA forums in reference to Android SDK 1.0. udK nor anyone else in that thread mention 1.1 or anything newer/more-recent THAN 1.0 (which we all know if the latest version of Android that our phones will ship with).

Furthermore, no where on pages one through three of that particular thread, on the XDA forums does the word update appear.

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Originally Posted by benji

You're not a very good reader, of my post or the other thread.

Nor are you.
Show me where is says update and I will apologize for having misread everything AND will send to you a gift to show 'no hard feelings'.

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Originally Posted by benji

I wasn't suggesting anyone actually apply the ROM update ...

I am pretty certain that no one here mistook your post as a suggestion.
But I personally took it as a misleading cross reference to something that does not exist.

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Originally Posted by benji

... just pointing out there's apparently a on-screen keyboard option around the corner in addtion to the one mentioned here.

around the corner for whom exactly?

If someone should install Android successfully on their HTC device NOT the HTC/T-Mobile G1, that thread applies to them.
However, everyone here (99.9% of registered members) is getting the G1 with an unhacked version of the Android operating system version ONE!

If udK or someone else should code an onscreen keyboard for our new G1 one phone, that would be mega-orgasmic-fantastic!
Really it would benji.
But until that happens, you still pointed to a site and thread totally not related to the originating topic of this discussion.

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Originally Posted by jmejiaa

I noticed that the android does not have a virtual keyboard, Now I am not sure if it would really help that much, but for short txt messages or stuff like that I would be thinking it would be nice to have the option. Do you guys think this would someday be available?

And to answer the originating topic of this discussion posted by jmejiaa;

@jmejiaa
Yes, it seems possible.

benji · 10-10-2008, 12:48 AM

Wow... that was a lot of hot air...

Didn't actually read it all.

You're really over-analyzing things... from the looks of it, a habit of yours?

Anyways, for anyone interested, take a peek at an on-screen keyboard that is likely, but by no means definitely, to be included as part of an upcoming G1 ROM update: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=432661

OrganizedFellow · 10-10-2008, 12:55 AM

Incredible benji

HAHAH LMAO, I gotta say though - love your persistence!

"You're really over-analyzing things... from the looks of it, a habit of yours?"

Yeah, I do that often, no offenses intended.