Official PSP keyboard coming

[Anonymous D]

slightlty off topic, but as sony seem to be using trained snails to make this, what is the current situation on using ir keyboards with the psp (phat ver obv)? i know some apps have pikey built in but whaty about the xmb keypads?

[F9zDark]

Hopefully it'll be better than previous attempts by third parties to make a decent portable keyboard, which mostly turned out flimsy, cheap and awkward to use.

Well seeing that there were no 3rd party keyboards to ever be released for the PSP, I find it hard to believe these people would know they "turned out flimsy, cheap and awkward to use".

[Shrygue]

Mid 2009 for the PSP keyboard? I'm sure Sony can crank that out much faster like, say, halfway through this year. Who would really want to wait 1½ years for this to arrive?

[callsignAPOLLO]

On this note, does anyone know of any homebrew projects that somehow might connect the psp to a regular keyboard?

Just curious...

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[Sketchy]

meh.....never had a problem typing on the psp myself....

[F9zDark]

Mid 2009 for the PSP keyboard? I'm sure Sony can crank that out much faster like, say, halfway through this year. Who would really want to wait 1½ years for this to arrive?

I suppose it depends on how Sony goes with it. If they make a regular USB keyboard that some how clips onto the PSP and makes it so we can hold it by the keyboard to type then yeah it can be out in 6 months.

If they decide to go with some kind of touch screen overlay for the screen, then I can see how that can take a year and a half.

Am I willing to wait that long? Nope.

[Panda Bear K]

Logitech needs to take this time to assert its dominance in the peripheral, badass peripheral world (read G25)

[xg917]

ugh.. i wish they will just add T9 to the psp's memory so we could type faster like on cell phones..

[F9zDark]

ugh.. i wish they will just add T9 to the psp's memory so we could type faster like on cell phones..

If I recall "T9" is the property of Cingular/AT&T? (Or is it Verizon?), so in other words Sony cannot use it.

Sure predictive text would be nice, but I'd rather use a full keyboard. I got a cell phone with a full keyboard and I'd never go back to not having it.

[specialist83]

why are they tinking so much anyway...a normal QWERTY keyboard with common handphone predictive text recognition will be more than enuff to satisfy more than half of the PSP population...