[guitardoc64]

Originally Posted by Devileyezz

I agree. I think they had a long vacation for a long time till people started going nuts for an update. To pacify the rowdy crowd, they whipped up some cosmetic changes and mild under-the-hood changes and released it in form of a new version.

I'm certain not a lot of plannin/execution went into v4.

Actually I think it was the fact that they spent all their time developing the Android version. It appears to me that some of the changes are copied over from that. The basic layout of the android version is the qwerty keyboard. It appears the V4 T-9 keyboars is the qwerty with a skin that makes it "look" like the T9 but doesn't have the 4+ way slide that the V3 keyboard does. In V2, V3, and V3.5 it allows an up/down slide for numbers. The 3.5 touch system is VERY efficient because it allows access to a lot more than just letters. I found my breaking point with V4 was due mainly to having to change to this screen and swipe till I got the symbol I wanted and it just took longer. Things that I did like was the disable keyboard switch by swipe, the slightly better word prediction/correction and the dictionary toggle. Even then, those additions were at the cost of useability. I also hated the fact that I had to patch it to make it work for me. Don't get me wrong, I like skinning apps and tweaking PPCs but I never had to patch TouchPal till now, and I just can't get over how complaints like mine, jmorton10 and many others only got addressed with a cheesy patch, instead of going back to what has worked for them and made their SIP useable and unique.