In a bold move, promising input method technology outfit 8pen have released their new application for Android to the Market for effectively £1. This is bold for two reasons.
First, the input method does away with the keyboard in favour of entirely new method of input that will almost certainly take some getting used to. Secondly, to expect mass user adoption on a product that requires an entirely different metal shift to typing on your phone, you would think that the company behind it would release it for free, at least until people started getting hooked on it. Ok, so perhaps I was spoiled with Swype coming on my Galaxy S when I purchased it, but still.
8pen looks brilliant, but without even a trial version on the Market there is little way it will spread quickly. If anyone tries it, please feel free to leave your comments below. I know other users will be excited to read them to know whether or not it is worth trying out. We will look to review this interesting application in the next few weeks. You can check our the website here, and there is a video available after the jump.
Review Video 8pen :
HSDPA, 10.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 2 Mbps Phone with Android OS 1.6 1 GB storage, 256 MB RAM internal memory, microSD support. TFT capacitive touchscreen screen, 65K colour depth with 480 X 854 Pixels resolution and 4.00 inch screen size. Scratch-resistant surface ,Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate ,Timescape/Mediascape UI Main Camera resolution 8 MP [ 3264 x 2448 pixels ] . Touch focus, image stabilization, geo-tagging, face and smile detection, autofocus, LED flash. 
HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps Phone with BlackBerry OS; 5.0 256MB storage, 128 MB RAM internal memory, microSD support. TFT screen, 65K colour depth with 480 X 360 Pixels resolution and 2.44 inch screen size. Full QWERTY keyboard ,Touch-sensitive optical trackpad Main Camera resolution 3.15 MP [ 2048 x 1536 pixels ] . Image stabilization, autofocus, LED flash. 
HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps Phone with Android OS, v2.1 (Eclair) 16 GB storage, 512MB ROM, 384MB RAM internal memory, microSD support. Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen screen, 16M colour depth with 480 x 800 pixels resolution and 3.70 inch screen size. Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate ,Proximity sensor for auto turn-off ,Multi-touch input method ,Projector UI ,Scratch-resistant surface ,Handwriting recognition Main Camera resolution 8 MP [ 3264 x 2448 pixels ] . Geo-tagging, face, smile and blink detection, autofocus, LED flash. 
