I’m trying out yet another keyboard on the nexus one, this time the HTC Sense keyboard. The nexus one only comes with the stock Android 2.1 keyboard, which isn’t bad, but there is always room for improvement.

My main complaints with the stock keyboard is that to do any special characters you have to push a symbol button first (same for numbers). I’ve tried a keyboard called Smart Keyboard that allows you to long press buttons as a shortcut. Like long press “r” and you get a 4. Smart keyboard is good…but it won’t use the dictionary or auto apostrophe unless you buy the full version.

I’ve tried swype, which was just a little strange, but it’s missing some stuff like auto apostrophe, and double letters are just hard to do.

So that brings us to the HTC Sense keyboard. It comes on Android devices running sense, but people have been able to get it working on non-sense devices. It looks nice, has auto capitalization and apostrophe, and a great predictive dictionary feature.

You can check it out here.