Upgrade your Palm Pre: The soft keyboard is here

If you’re an iPhone user and considering a Palm Pre, the complete absence of a soft keyboard is felt almost immediately. Having to slide the keyboard out seems so 2003. Well fret no more, thanks to this work by Alan Rodriguez you can upgrade your Palm Pre in minutes.

Darn clever is how I’d describe how to activate the soft keyboard. Thanks to the Pre’s gesture area on the screen, the command is clean, easy and looks darn handy. A simple double tap brings up the virtual keyboard along with Palm’s unique “ripple” effect that shows exactly where you’ve touched for visual feedback.