The Swype keyboard: So amazing it's creepy!
Shown in above video is Swype, a new way to type on touchscreen keyboards. It's another invention from the makers of T9 (yeah, as in the T9 dictionary on billions of phones around the world, probably including yours) and it's amazing, almost creepily so. It's like witchcraft, but in a good way.
The idea is this: instead of having to individually tap on the letters as one would do on a normal touchscreen keyboard (like the iPhone's), one would only need to "swype," which means to trace an unbroken path from each letter to the next. Simply put, to swype means to connect the letters in one swipe/motion (one swype = one word). Connect the dots, where the dots are the letters. That simple.
Watch the demos on YouTube, Swype is really amazing. It's very well thought-out: they have great solutions for the obvious roadblocks, including punctuation, double-letters, capitalization, and spelling correction. And the inventor claims to have reached speeds of 50 wpm on Swype. Incredible.
So far, Swype has gone live in the newly-released Samsung Omnia II, which is a Windows Mobile device. And Swype will probably go to the Android and the iPhone platforms next.
