Best keyboard for Nexus One?

[Markdental]

Smart Keyboard Pro, best by far.

I have tried HTC, Better keyboard, Swype, etc... Smart is the fastest as long as you don't need voice recognition. Multi-touch FTW!!

 

[NexusMMM]

I've tried them all and I keep going back to stock. There is always a deal breaker issue with one of them that causes me to say no way...

 

[mi_canuck]

I'm with you on that...

I just like the dark stock colour of the OE keyboard...

I didn't care for the symbols showing on the keys either with the HTC keyboard - found it distracting personally. Plus, I found the auto-correct suggestion box obscured the typing window. Kinda dumb. Anyways, it's got cool features, but I like the stock kb more. That's just me.

 

[inspiron41]

I currently have Swype installed. I love it a lot and i think it's an innovating piece of keypad. But the one thing i hate about it is typing numbers and all those extra items.

But the one keyboard i missed so much when i came from mytouch 3g was TouchPal keyboard. It was really great. However, the company, Cootek, failed to release an update since september. I backup the .apk file once i upgraded to the Nexus. I tried to installed, but the TouchPal application did not resize correctly to the larger Nexus resolution. The keyboard only covers like 75% of the screen in both landscape and portrait. I still have the .apk if anyone wants to play with it.

If anyone hasnt heard of touchpal. It gives the user the option to use three different keyboard layout - qwerty, blackberry, and telephone. I used the qwerty. The two things i love about is that every thing on the main layout page is all you needed. So if you want to capitalized a letter, you hold your finger over the letter and fling it up. And if you want to type a number, you fling down (there's a second keypad print bellow the main qwerty pad). So it made it easy to type out numbers without scrolling through pages. It also allowed the user to use different keyboard languages. and it does a nice job with word correction as you type.

anyone, here's a demo of it from youtube:
YouTube - TouchPal Soft Keyboard for Android v1

 

[bitxboi]

I think Better Keyboard has the same three keyboard options, and it will fit 100% the size of your Nexus One screen

 

[ManMythLegend]

Default.

Frankly all the other keyboards have major shortcomings..

HTC-IME breaks some voice functionality of N1 as of now.
Better Keyboard is laggy and voice input icon takes 5 seconds to some up.
Smart keyboard has an atrocious word prediction method.
Swype is FANTASTIC for portrait. But lacks voice input and landscape view lacks an option to have default or regular KB.

Not sure why people love Iphone keyboards so much. No user dictionary and avg word correction. No gestures. Only thing good is that its a few pixels taller in landscape.