Hackers extract HTC Diamond keyboard, embed it on your weaker, less jewel-like Windows Mobile devices
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The folks at XDA Devs has pulled off the soft keyboard from the HTC Diamond — the one that looks kind of like the iPhone keyboard — and has made it available to regular WinMo phones. They extracted a file that you can use on your own phone. Use at your own risk as it is fairly slow right now and may or may not work on your hardware.