Comments on: Swype, an alternative keyboard for Droid http://echeng.com/journal/2009/12/31/swype-an-alternative-keyboard-for-droi/ Eric Cheng's Journal Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:44:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: tanthalas http://echeng.com/journal/2009/12/31/swype-an-alternative-keyboard-for-droi/comment-page-1/#comment-3153640 tanthalas Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:26:15 +0000 http://echeng.com/journal/?p=3386#comment-3153640 <p>ahh ok. :) I will have to try it out and see how it goes!</p> ahh ok. :) I will have to try it out and see how it goes!

]]> By: echeng http://echeng.com/journal/2009/12/31/swype-an-alternative-keyboard-for-droi/comment-page-1/#comment-3153632 echeng Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:53:50 +0000 http://echeng.com/journal/?p=3386#comment-3153632 <p>You should probably check out the sample videos. It is really fast.</p> You should probably check out the sample videos. It is really fast.

]]> By: tanthalas http://echeng.com/journal/2009/12/31/swype-an-alternative-keyboard-for-droi/comment-page-1/#comment-3153616 tanthalas Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:09:32 +0000 http://echeng.com/journal/?p=3386#comment-3153616 <p>So I've been using the on-screen keyboard of the Nexus One for awhile (still miss my G1 keyboard though) and it seems to work reasonably well (aside from sometimes autocorrecting words I don't want it to... the autocorrect feature itself is actually quite handy). I would think that it's not too different from the one for the Droid.</p> <p>What's the advantage of Swype over the built in keyboard software? The only unique thing I see from your demo is the word replacement feature, and it seems to be lacking the built-in keyboard's feature of displaying autocompletable words as you type.</p> So I’ve been using the on-screen keyboard of the Nexus One for awhile (still miss my G1 keyboard though) and it seems to work reasonably well (aside from sometimes autocorrecting words I don’t want it to… the autocorrect feature itself is actually quite handy). I would think that it’s not too different from the one for the Droid.

What’s the advantage of Swype over the built in keyboard software? The only unique thing I see from your demo is the word replacement feature, and it seems to be lacking the built-in keyboard’s feature of displaying autocompletable words as you type.

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