Swype

[Chicago Jake]

Anyone using (or even heard of) a text entry method called Swype? It's a program that lets you use a virtual keyboard much faster. Instead of tapping each letter, you just "swipe" your finger across all the letters of the word in one continuous looping motion.... and it gets the word from that!

I saw a demo of it at a T-Mobile store, and thought it was a great idea. I hate virtual keyboards, but this might be fast enough and easy enough (if I can get the hang of it) to make me ch-ch-change my mind.

There is a similar product called Shapewriter which I installed on my cell phone (Swype isn't available for my version of the OS) and I've been practicing with it.

Anyone else try either of them?........Jake

[Ardbeg... innit]

"Swype on Skype" sounds like a great Dr Seuss book

Havent heard of it, but I dont have any devices that use a virtual keyboard so it hasnt been on my radar. Glad that it works for you, my first impression was that it looks too much like Palm's Graffiti (I got fairly good at that but I could never get the letter "v" to be recognized)

[Captain Gary]

I've used swype and once you get used to it, it is pretty easy. Since I've upgraded to 2.1, I've been using the voice to text option almost exclusively. If you keep swype installed, the voice to text is not an option.

What OS version are you on? 2.2 is being released as we speak.

[Chicago Jake]

I'm still on 1.6. Since my phone, the G1, is the original Android device, I'm not sure it has the hardware to upgrade beyond that. I'll probably be getting a new one this summer, though, and most certainly will have 2.2.

I have gotten pretty good with the Shapewriter app, and it's great for putting together sentences of real words. But it sucks for search terms, web addresses, and things like that, which aren't likely to be in its dictionary.