Which Soft Input Panel (SIP) is your favorite? Is it the default Keyboard that came with your Windows Mobile device? Or did your port your stylus entry from your Palm days and are more familiar with Block/Letter Recognizer? Maybe you treasure screen real estate and swear by the Transcriber? Or are manufacturer-created SIPs such as Eten’s EZ Keyboard and HTC’s Phone Pad more suited for your needs? You could even be an advocate of SIPs created by developers such as CooTek’s TouchPal and TenGO?

I’ve used many of these SIPs over my years with Windows Mobile and I do have my favorite. But is it really the best? What makes it triumph over the other SIPs? Does it have it’s drawbacks? Over the next couple of weeks, I will look into the various SIPs listed above and give my take on them. Find out all you need to know about the SIPs and see which one could be the one for you.

If you would like to see a SIP added to this list, drop me a comment and I will see if I can accommodate it in the series. In the mean time, you could take part in our polls and let me know which SIP is your favorite. Tune in next week where we pit the SIPs against each other to see how they fair.

Saturday Series is where we take a component of Windows Mobile and look at it in further detail. It’s reviews and comparisons combined into a series of posts that are published for a month. For the month of November 2007, we look at Soft Input Panels (SIPs) which is how users enter data into their Windows Mobile phone. If you have a suggestion for a series, let us know about it.

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