Palm Pre users have voiced complaints regarding the exclusion of an on-screen keyboard. It looks like the Pre will have one which is based on the phone’s symbol input panel. Instead of having showing symbols, regular alphabet characters are present instead.

As the patch is still in pre-alpha testing phase, it’s not recommended to be installed unless you know the ins-and-outs of the Palm Pre. Don’t tell me I didn’t warn you.

The in-development on-screen keyboard works in portrait and landscape mode, in all applications and in all fields. The great thing about this patch when it’s done is, you don’t have to flick the Palm Pre’s slide out everytime you have to send text messages (especially when you just need to send short messages).

[via webOS Internals]