Apple Thoughts: Five Row Keyboard = New Jailbroken Hotness

"Many others have complained at various times about the inexact science/art of using the iPhone’s touchscreen keyboard and I must admit, as much as I love my iPhone, I avoid using it for tasks that require a lot of typing. Now, however, there’s a simple little jailbreak app that takes a least some of the pain out of using the soft keyboard by adding a 5th row, giving users access to numbers without requiring navigation to a sub-menu. Access to symbols is easier, too — just hit the “shift” key and the numbers turn to symbols."

I would love to have one more row of keys for typing numbers without having to switch to the numeric keyboard, but I'm not about to jailbreak my phone just to get it. A lot of others, however, would disagree with me and this seems to be one of those things that really has elevated the experience of the iPhone for some people. The obvious problem with another row of keys being added in nearly the same amount of space is that you're cramming way more keys in vertically. That oughta really sit well with people who hated the typing experience to begin with!