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Swype — T9’s next generation arrives

Started by Ewan · 9 months ago

But is it any good. Well, I think with Swype, you need to see it to believe it.
I haven’t, yet. But I intend popping by their stand to find out more.
Swype will, it’s founders contend, change the way people input text on any screen at all. I’m ... Continue reading »

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  • Constantine

    9 months ago

    you basically draw on the screen with your finger. useless if you have an entire QWERTY keypad. smart if you have a T9 keypad showing on the screen. as you already said: QWERTY was invented to prevent jamming and the only way we're going to stop using it is when they make speech to text perfect or develop a brain computer.
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  • Alex Churchill

    9 months ago

    There are plenty of alternate input methods for PDAs. I use Fitaly ( http://fitaly.com ), because that's optimised for single-finger entry of the English language; with its macros and shortcuts, people can get quite impressive input rates using it. TenGo ( www.tengo.net ) is pretty good too, and people get up to 75wpm on that. I'll be interested to see if Swype can measure up to these keyboards.
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  • Ewan

    9 months ago

    We shall see, eh, Alex?

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  • Youri

    9 months ago

    Well, at the moment there is no downloads, while there is a keyboard called SlideIT working on the same idea and free demo can be
    downloaded at http://dasur.co.il/Download.php
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  • Anomoly

    8 months ago

    We will see when we get some beta test out but there are a few different products out that are similar:

    Swype
    SlideIT
    ShapeWriter

    SlideIT is the only one that has a downloadable version out i've tried it and i must say i'm pretty impressed. the slideIT keyboard is a little small but you can also do graf on the side. overall i'm excited to see the other two come out!
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  • Anomoly

    8 months ago

    We will see when we get some beta test out but there are a few different products out that are similar:

    Swype
    SlideIT
    ShapeWriter

    SlideIT is the only one that has a downloadable version out i've tried it and i must say i'm pretty impressed. the slideIT keyboard is a little small but you can also do graf on the side. overall i'm excited to see the other two come out!
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