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hey guys it's brandon minuman from pocketnow.com so what we're seeing on these newer windows mobile devices like the touch pro and the diamond are these finger friendly keyboards so that you don't actually have to open the keyboard and in the case of the diamond which doesn't have a keyboard you can easily type with your thumbs or your index finger right on the screen but what's common to all windows mobile touchscreen devices and this goes back to the early early days of Windows Mobile is the stylist keyboard and the stylus keyboard actually has gesture support and I don't think a lot of people realize that so this is what the stylist keyboard looks like you've probably seen it before and what's really great about the stylus keyboard is that all of the keys are spaced very close together making it obviously conducive to using your stylus and I've seen some people that are extremely fast and entering text with the other stylist so a few gestures to talk about here and by the way this keyboard is common to older devices like the AT&T tilt so it looks the same just slightly different for the higher resolution devices like the touch pro and the touch diamond so gestures what you can do is you can actually capitalize a letter by clicking on one letter and dragging upwards so if I'm typing the moon and I want n to be capitalized I drag upwards all in caps hjk so this will save you a little bit of time from having to go over to the shift key to press the shift button to get everything to be bigger now another gesture you can do is go right or left anywhere on the keyboard so if I go left it'll go back space anywhere on the keyboard if I go right it'll go right a character on the screen there something else you can do is you can go down so down to another line like so so these gestures may indeed save you some time in typing with the stylus keyboard if you decide to use this particular keyboard to enter in text and again to get to this particular keyboard and it's the same on most windows mobile devices that you tap and hold on the bottom on the keyboard area whoops and you will get this pop-up menu and it's called keyboard so that's it for now for gestures on the stylus keyboard in windows mobile devices