Well, if you can’t quite wait to get the HTC Touch Diamond you can, at least, get the cool “iPhone-esque” keyboard from it. The guys at xda-developers.com have somehow managed to grab the necessary bits to bring you the Diamond Keyboard, Keypad and QWERTY input methods. The software can take a little while to install, plus the default xT9 language is set to Italian, so you’ll need to tweak that in Settings->Input.
I’ve tried this on a HTC TyTN I and it didn’t work, but it did work fine on the HTC Touch Dual, and it made typing text messages much easier. If you’re interested in this you should also check out TouchPal from cootek.
Link – xda-developers.com
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