CooTek TouchPal Soft Keyboard hits Version 3

Now that the HTC Touch has been made available on the big three CDMA carriers (That's Verizon, Alltel, and Sprint, by the way), there are a bunch of folks probably wondering if there's a better way to type on it. Well, we've told you before it was TouchPal by CooTek and it looks like that advice is going to stay the same - development continues on the software and we're now seeing Version 3, which has a few new features we like the sound of:

• “Flow” your keyboard - You can switch layouts or turn pages by sliding left or right on the keyboard.
• Change priority of a word in dictionary, or delete a custom word.
• Prediction based on context - The prediction engine can now guess the word based on what you have typed. For example, if you typed “let” and then type for “us”, the word “us” will appear prior to “is”.
• Next word prediction - If you typed “look”, the word “forward to” will be shown in the candidate list.

The new features look pretty slick, though we'll have to reserve our final judgment until we can test whether or not TouchPal's best feature -- speed and responsiveness -- remains. Give it a shot and let us know, hey?