On Monday, Techcrunch has posted a video that showed a side-by-side comparison of typing on the Omnia II versus on an iPhone. Omnia II from Samsung is the first touch-screen phone integrated with Swype technology.
For starter, Swype is a faster and easier way of typing for on-screen keyboard. The patented technology can apply on various types of devices including touch phone, tablet, etc. The way you type in Swype is you swipe your finger across the keys of the virtual keyboard instead of hitting key by key. Swype traces the path of your typing and intelligently know the word you just type.
As claimed, you can type much faster on virtual keyboard with Swype equipped and in average user can type over 40 words per minute. In the demo video, the Swypist easily beats the iPhone typist:
Swype looks really promising and I always welcome any innovative technology to further improve typing for on-screen keyboard. However, as a mediocre iPhone typist, I think the iPhone typist in the video didn’t do the job well enough. I believe some of you can beat the Swypist (or at least tie) using your iPhone keyboard.
What do you think about Swype? Do you want Apple to integrate it with iPhone’s virtual keyboard? Leave us comment and share your thought.
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I consider myself a fast typer – I can touch-type on a computer keyboard. I can easily beat the Omnia typist, so I suppose the real question is, which one can I use to type faster? I would like to have a go before passing judgement.
That iPhone typist looks incredibly slow to me.
Who types with two thumbs on an iPhone keypad? That’s just ridiculous! Your thumb is too big, and the person was incredibly slow, too.
Rigged data!
I type with my index finger only and this post, so far, has taken me about 20 seconds.
Thanks for this post. I think there’s sone merit in the swipe technology – but stopping at every letter could be tricky if you want to do it fast. It would rely too much on predictive text, and then if you wanted to type something unusual you would have to toggle the option like on a mobile phone.
That video is unfair. Imagine selling shoes that supposedly make you run faster, they have a video where a triathalon runner wearing the shoes and competes against a grandma in a wheel chair not wearing the shoes
Lol Deon.. “who types with two thumbs” on the iPhone? I’d probably go with a staggeringly large, vast majority of users! I’m writing this write now double thumbed on my iPhone and I’ve actually tested my speed and can type 50 accurate wpm on my iPhone. That swipe thing slows me down, there’s an app that does it for the iPhone and it just doesn’t work for me.
Very cool indeed! I encountered SlideIT too, and I really liked it, you can try it too:
http://www.mobiletextinput.com/Produ…IT/SlideIT.php
I can’t try Swype since it’s not even out yet.
Ok, I think the idea is awesome. I am ready to download it and give it a try. The only question is “does it work for SMS?”
From what I”ve seen, it’s more of an app for writing notes and emails, not texting.
Anyone know for sure?
sure it works for SMS
What c*rap. Dat dude is typing awfuly slow … A really unfair video. Who the heck doesn’t double space for a period in the end anyway.. And typing with thumbs..? Yeh right.. I wouldn’t use this feature een if it was available
I am reading everywhere that it’s not available for Texting because of some rule that Apple has.
RonQR33,
slideIT says it’s not out yet for iPhone.
Right, It’s not out for iPhone and Android
But it’s out for Windows Mobile and Symbian
look here:
http://www.mobiletextinput.com/Download.php
I agree that the iPhone typist is really quite slow but I am using two thumbs to type this message right now and it only took me 10 seconds and I just got the ipod touch only 2 day ago…