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Thursday, January 17, 2013

Swype Installed, Swiftkey Paid For

Image representing Swype as depicted in CrunchBase

I did manage to install Swype. But right before that I paid for the paid version of Swiftkey. I had been using the trial version with weeks to go. But it was only four bucks.

Typing is fast enough on the smartphone for me. But it can always do one better.

I don't seem to able to find Swiftkey Flow that supposedly accepts Swype like, well, swipes.

SwiftKey Counters Swype With A Smarter Version, Makes An In-Road Into Healthcare Market

the market seems to be turning into a face-off fight between Swype and Swiftkey. ..... Swiftkey has also released a custom version for the medical industry called SwiftKey Healthcare, allowing health care professionals take better and faster notes on tablets. This is their first entry into enterprise ..... Swiftkey works by understanding what you intend to type by the context of what you are writing. It both corrects words and suggests the next word. The app can be synced with your email, Tweets, and Facebook status updates to better learn your style and vocabulary. As a result the company estimates it’s saved its users over 65 billion keystrokes. ..... The ability to dictate, rather than type, words may help it in Asia where some languages with non-Roman alphabets have thousands of characters. Nuance bought Swype in October for $102.5m.

Swiftkey adds Swype-like gestures to its Android keyboard. Swell!

Is There A Swype App?

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There isn't at the Google Play store. There is a Swype website, but I am having a hard time getting to it on my mobile phone browser.

If you could type on the smartphone as fast as on a laptop, you might even be able to blog. I mean, you can. But traditional typing is such a slow process you'd rather wait until you get in front of a laptop. Come to think of it, reading news is a better experience on the laptop.

Smartphone Dictionaries Go Gangnam Style

add support for smaller languages that are often ignored by technology companies

Monday, July 30, 2012

Handwrite

The mobile experience is different. There are few places where that is as starkly obvious as when you try to type. The mobile screen is not conducive to typing.

Make your mark on Google with Handwrite for Mobile and Tablet Search

speaking your queries, getting results before you finish typing, or searching by image. Now there’s a new way for you to interact with Google: Handwrite for web search on mobile phones and tablets ..... Handwrite enables you to search by just writing letters with your finger most anywhere on your device’s screen—there’s no keyboard that covers half of the screen and no need for hunt-and-peck typing. ..... Since you can write anywhere, you don’t have to look back and forth repeatedly from the keyboard to the search box...... Handwrite is experimental, and works better in some browsers than others—on Android devices, it works best in Chrome. For now, we’ve enabled Handwrite for iOS5+ devices, Android 2.3+ phones and Android 4.0+ tablets—in 27 languages

Make your mark on Google with Handwrite for Mobile and Tablet Search

Handwrite is a leap. And it just might be the friendliest way to type yet on the mobile screen. When you speak commands, you disturb people around you. And hopefully you are surrounded by people often.

This is so good people might demand it on their laptop screens. Although laptops might come with a warning sign. Do not burn your fingers from too much handwriting.

Monday, June 21, 2010

Swype: Type On Your Smartphone At Laptop Speed

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Phone Software Takes the Taps Out of Typing allows users to glide a finger across the virtual keyboard to spell words, rather than tapping out each letter. ..... The movements do not have to be precise because the software calculates which words a user is most likely trying to spell. .... Capitalization and double letters can be indicated with a pause or squiggle, while spacing and punctuation are automatic...... Swype charges phone makers a licensing fee for each device sold .... “We could have custom dictionaries for doctors or lawyers” ..... “It could become the de facto standard for tablets, next-generation TVs or next-generation remote controls” ..... the Swype software — which took a laborious seven years. ..... global sales of touch-screen devices to reach 326.7 million in 2010, an increase of 97 percent from last year. ...... Google is trying to let people skip the screen entirely by developing voice- and image-recognition technologies. Its Goggles application can analyze a photo of some text and translate it into a different language — no typing required.