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Anyone Using Swype? What Do You Think.

I like it, but the words it picks sometimes are reallllly weird. I always have to double check what I wrote for the random words it picks that shouldnt even be in a dictionary file.
 
I like it overall, as others have said, takes some getting used to.
But I'm blown away with the voice recognition. I hardly type anything anymore. It's about 95% accurate (just re-do if it isn't).
The iPhone 4 has, to the best of my reading, no opportunity for voice texting anything, let alone everything.
Amazing.
 
I love it, but I wish there was a minimize keyboard button, cant cant get it to go away if I want to read an email again after i bring up the keyboard....
 
I'm trying to drink thee swype kool aide, but I always have to double check my typing. I also type w/ my thumb & yet feels awkward. Looking & typing. I'm sad that I don't love it.

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Prefer stock compact qwerty. It's slower and more painful in my opinion using swype, I tried to I really did. Then I tried shapewriter, but honestly its just a pain. I can type on this kb and watch the screen just like I do on a real pc. Swype looks cool but is no faster and a huge battery hog.
 
I typically use swype for one handed (or thumbed) texting while holding the phone in portrait mode. Prior to installing, I'd never attempt to use the keyboard except in landscape. Well, today I was sitting in a meeting, bored, and thinking of some notes I wanted to take down. I thought unlike texting or emailing, that this was better suited for me to bang out in landscape mode using my thumbs. Umm, after a few words, I switched over to swyping and didn't look back. There are a number of good apps out there, but this is the only one thus far that I would label revolutionary. I didn't get in on the initial beta so I was without swype a day last week when the last beta version expired. It really did seem like the end of the world, an entire day of having to hit individual letters to spell out words. How primitive.
 
you want to know what everyone thinks about it? it's like CRACK! when the beta ended people were freaking out, myself included, won't text hardly at all w/o it.
 
just my opinion, but there is NO way there is any other faster way to type than swype, swype is amazing, I mean you can even teach it your lingo and it will remember it next time, I bet the people that don't like it didn't read the tips, like if you have the same letter twice, like school. you circle the o and it duplicates it, I would pay @ least $10 for this app, this is a money maker! but it's free!
 
potterdood said:
just my opinion, but there is NO way there is any other faster way to type than swype, swype is amazing, I mean you can even teach it your lingo and it will remember it next time, I bet the people that don't like it didn't read the tips, like if you have the same letter twice, like school. you circle the o and it duplicates it, I would pay @ least $10 for this app, this is a money maker! but it's free!
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The beta is free. Bet on an official version costing you, but you're right, this is one of those apps I'd pay a pretty penny for. Judging by the CEO interview I saw last week, it sounds like they're more interested in OEM integration so they make a fraction of a dollar for every phone sold, not just whomever decides to buy it. IMO, that's win-win for Swype and the fans because they get paid regardless and it rolls into the cost of the phone which becomes completely transparent at purchase time.
 
Fuzzy_Dunlop said:
I really liked it, until it stopped working when I started using a 2nd battery. Swype is linked to your hardware ID which apparently changes when you switch your battery. As far as I can tell, using more than one battery is impossible.
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I honestly have no idea what your talking about. I switch between two batteries all the time and have never had a problem with swype.

potterdood said:
you want to know what everyone thinks about it? it's like CRACK! when the beta ended people were freaking out, myself included, won't text hardly at all w/o it.
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:D best comparison ever. I was literally LOST the day the beta ended. I tried going back to the stock keyboard and was ready to give up on texting all together. Luckily I found the new version that same day. Thank god for swype
 
Swype is the only reason I can live without a physical keyboard. I was heart broken when the beta ended, but a quick check of android forums brought me my sweet relief. What a great community we have here!
 
Thank you for directing me to the site because i couldnt find it in the market either. I really really like swype a lot! It's a really really cool keyboard, there is no doubt about it. What made me uninstall it a few minutes after installing was strictly because of the privacy issue. I have nothing to hide but I dont want someone knowing what I am typing. I wish it didn't record your keystrokes....if it didnt, it would be perfect!
 
Trooper said:
Does no one care it can capture keystrokes?
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Any replacement keyboard is going to have this warning.

If I saw a replacement keyboard with the security requirement that it allowed full internet access I would think that would be cause for alarm.

The Swype installer requires internet access to download the keyboard application, that's all though. The keyboard app itself has no communication privileges. Once it's installed, one can uninstall the downloader.
 
I used Swype for a couple weeks and it really hooked me with how fast I could get a message out. But at the same time I would be pulling my hair out after realizing I got a word wrong three words back. The delete key is too close to the return key for my thumb and I would often suddenly be three paragraph spaces below my text when trying to delete words or characters.

So I tried out ShapeWriter and it's such a smoother experience. There's no pop up menu for word suggestion, the bar is unintrusive and adding words is really easy too. I find myself deleting less, which means it's either more accurate or the keyboard layout is easier for me to be accurate. It's disappointing ShapeWriter is being discontinued, hopefully it can get picked up again down the road and become a real rival for Swype.
 
sandroid said:
I used Swype for a couple weeks and it really hooked me with how fast I could get a message out. But at the same time I would be pulling my hair out after realizing I got a word wrong three words back. The delete key is too close to the return key for my thumb and I would often suddenly be three paragraph spaces below my text when trying to delete words or characters.

So I tried out ShapeWriter and it's such a smoother experience. There's no pop up menu for word suggestion, the bar is unintrusive and adding words is really easy too. I find myself deleting less, which means it's either more accurate or the keyboard layout is easier for me to be accurate. It's disappointing ShapeWriter is being discontinued, hopefully it can get picked up again down the road and become a real rival for Swype.
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You do have an optical mouse to use to get you to the right place. It makes it a lot easier.
 
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