The search for THE BEST keyboard for Windows Mobile is one that everyone who actually wants to do work on their PDA engages in every so often. I’ve tried a few of the keyboards out there (not even scratching the surface, I’m sure), but I think I’ve finally found one that’s worthy of being on my phone … at least until a better one comes out — FingerKeyboard v2.1.

I was just stumbling around the forums at PPCGeeks.com the other day and found this treasure of an app. So I grabbed the QVGA version, plugged my phone into my MacBook, and installed the CAB. It took a while and eventually seemed like it had gotten stuck (I left it sitting for about 20 minutes) so I pressed the END button and checked the program list. Lo and behold, it was installed. The keyboard itself is a great keyboard, with copy/paste/undo/redo, vibration feedback, click sounds, customizable emoticon shortcuts, and customizable shortcuts + much more, you can’t beat it. And the price, well, nothing is better than free. That’s right, this keyboard is FREE.

The only problems that I ran into were that on a QVGA device the keyboard with the arrow buttons was too big and only left a small space to see what I was typing, also the landscape orientation wasn’t correct. Whether this was because the application didn’t fully complete installing or not I don’t know.

FingerKeyboard v2.1 is freeware from the guys at PPCGeeks.com. They have versions for QVGA, VGA, and WVGA phones so no one is left out.