I loved swype until the beta ran out and then tried slide it. slide it wasnt bad at all and seemed very user friendly but a friend suggested the Swiftkey app and i grabbed it on beta and liked it from the start, i do agree that the paid version that just launched has lost a few things like apostrophes but im sure they will fix that in time. Once the AI of swiftkey learns your lingo its great and like other posters above stated , you can type whole sentences with a couple keystrokes rather than 20 plus strokes....I dont think ill go back to swype but who knows my tastes change every once in awhile ....lol