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Love it.]]>Jun 24th 2010 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/Jun 24th 2010 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/
Apple must be so pissed off, that they can't label this as innovation and was released for other phones first.

It would ruin their reputation!
But hell, I love competition.

]]>Jun 24th 2010 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/
Nice!]]>Jun 24th 2010 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/And now Android has this app, I REALLY hope it stays with them so that Apple might know what Revolutionary really means!]]>Jun 24th 2010 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/
I love Swype too! I just got it on my Hero! It seems to make text entry even less laggy than the default keyboard! It's so awesome and effortless! Best virtual keyboard ever.]]>Jun 24th 2010 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/
Apple knows how to drag people into their products
by praising their own creations, innovations, like facetime, their retina display.

BTW, APPLE DIDN'T CREATE THE RETINA DISPLAY.
It was LG Displays, so credit goes to LG.

Facetime, is just another attempt to bring video calling to the market.
But hey, I'm still shy to do video calls. Let's see how this works.

That's why many blinded people buy their products.
Their advertisments are so good, and convincing that people buy them.
I for one, buy apple products, but at least I know what I'm buying.]]>Jun 24th 2010 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/Jun 24th 2010 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/
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Admittedly, I use Swype on a daily basis, and every single person I've known that has installed Swype on their Android phone (~4 personally) has been typing as fast as a normal touch-screen keyboard within 15 minutes. By the second day, they are typing faster. Empirical evidence counter-argues your intuitive guess.

Not lifting the finger reduces a lot of time. In one second you can swipe across a series of keys instead of typing a couple. And it's far more forgiving for missing the exact key position, so it greatly reduces typing errors.]]>Jun 24th 2010 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/Just installed it seems nice better than the stock n1 keyboard.]]>Jun 24th 2010 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/
Compared to a standard tap keyboard it's definitly leaps and bounds better and you can type way faster, though it's still not as fast as a physical keyboard, even after having my HTC HD2 since it was released and using swype I could type significantly faster on my HTC Fuze's physical keyboard. Also there is one downfall on swype than makes it not useable 100% of the time, when it's a hot humid day you finger doesn't slide well across the glass screen at all slowing down typing significantly. Sadly so far no manufacturers seem to want to give us the larger 4"+ screens with a real keyboard, if you want the real keyboard you're stuck with a 3.7" screen tops so for the big screen phones swype is still the best keyboard.]]>Jun 24th 2010 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/
Congrats to Swype. I've seen videos of it in action, it's crazy insane. It's the next evolution of typing... crazy good stuff.]]>Jun 24th 2010 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/Jun 24th 2010 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/Jun 24th 2010 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/
And, it's significantly better than Shapewriter too. For the day that my beta expired before I got into the open beta, it really sucked trying to use Shapewriter.

I've completely relegated the use of my Droid's keyboard to giving my phone extra mass.]]>Jun 24th 2010 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/That is just because the Droid's keyboard is junk. If you ever use a good phone keyboard like on the Touch Pro 2, you realize how much better they are! I had to give up on my Tilt2 (AT&T Touch Pro 2), though, because its processor is horribly slow and WM is buggier on it than on any other WM device I ever used!
I'm pretty happy with my Nexus One with Swype, but if they could make me a thinner Touch Pro 2 with Android, capacitive screen, 1GHz processor, and 512MB RAM, I would buy it in a hearbeat.]]>Jun 24th 2010 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/
you should have tried a custom ROM. my Verizon TP2 is pretty good. sure i wish it had a Snapdragon, but other than that, i really wouldn't change anything. the resistive screen on it is top notch. very responsive to fingers but also very responsive to a stylus or fingernail for when i need to be precise.

and on topic, i do like Swype, and i would use it as my primary if it had haptic feedback for when you're typing normally. it doesn't recognize my slang, so sometimes i need to type regular and having feedback helps.]]>Jun 24th 2010 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/
2. Even compared to a computer keyboard or the Touch Pro 2, Swype is amazing and fast. I can swype a world like perspective or celebration before you even get to the third letter. This is coming from someone who types 140 words per minute.

It's revolutionary.

I really hope Microsoft approves this for Win7 phones. It's a dealbreaker for me. ]]>Jun 24th 2010 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/Jun 24th 2010 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/
This INNOVATION was originally created by IBM and was released on the iPhone 2 years ago as the ShapeWriter app.

Swype just copied Shapewriter and they have either licensed the tech from IBM or they'll get sued in due course.]]>Jun 24th 2010 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/Jun 24th 2010 9:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/Interesting that you say LG made the display because on Apple's website they say Apple engineers developed it. A source would be nice.

Who's right?

For some reason I find myself less believing of Apple these days.]]>Jun 24th 2010 11:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/Jun 24th 2010 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/Jun 24th 2010 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/Jun 24th 2010 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/Jun 24th 2010 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/Jun 24th 2010 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/Jun 24th 2010 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/Jun 24th 2010 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/
i've now been using the swype keyboard for about a week, and I have to say I type AT LEAST 2 if not 3 times as fast as the stock HTC keyboard on my Evo (previously I used an iPhone for a few years, so I'm accustomed to touch screens). It also more accurately predicts what I want to type, but there are a few caveats.

i find typing specific words that have double letters at the end of them (tell, I'll, etc.) don't register as well. I always have to hit the button that gives me other "predictions" to choose the right word since they show up as "tel" and "il". Also, at least for the Evo, there are no directional keys on their keyboard like the stock HTC one, so if i need to go back to erase something, I have to just keep tapping on the screen until the cursor is in the right place which gets a bit annoying.

all in all, i'm still much much faster with the swype keyboard, it just slows me down slightly in ways that the stock touch keyboard didn't. It just redirects the time spent on your error adjustment to other things. If they added some directional keys and It'll be near perfect!]]>Jun 24th 2010 10:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/Jun 27th 2010 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/Jun 24th 2010 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/
Have you read a text or Facebook post for anyone under 18 recently? It's already happened.]]>Jun 24th 2010 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/
Texting ruined peoples abilities to spell, now this.]]>Jun 24th 2010 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/No... spell checkers ruined people's ability to spell. Texting ruined people's ability to not use shorthand in every other word.]]>Jun 24th 2010 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/Jun 24th 2010 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/
The funny thing with Swype is you need to know how to spell the word or it has no clue what you're trying to type. It forces you to be better spellers.]]>Jun 24th 2010 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/
Forget the Optimus Maximus. Now I know how the upcoming Optimus Tactus is going to work.

In a few years current keyboards will start looking like ancient typewriters.

I might consider putting my Logitech into storage. Once it is an antique it might land a fortune at Sotheby's for my grandchildren. Now there's an investment tip for you ;)]]>Jun 24th 2010 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/Jun 24th 2010 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/
I especially love when someone types out a long sentence with multisyllabic words and yet types 'ur' instead of your. The freaking sentence was 85 characters long, would have hurt them to type 2 more characters?]]>Jun 24th 2010 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/
It annoys me even more when intelligent people use the your instead of you're. Like, I know they know the difference, but they're too lazy to add the two extra keystrokes.

Call me old fashioned (I'm 21), but I capitalize and punctuate all of my IMs, texts, etc.]]>Jun 24th 2010 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/Wot r u on bout? dats agist.]]>Jun 24th 2010 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/Jun 24th 2010 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/Jun 24th 2010 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/Jun 24th 2010 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/swype-psyched-to-be-on-droid-x-fifty-total-devices-by-the-end-o/
The open beta started maybe a week ago, but you have to sign up and get the installer from them.

http://beta.swype.com/

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