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Rebski 2008-09-10 14:02

Swype - text input from the T9 people
 
http://gizmodo.com/5047798/blindingl...-creator-of-t9

Also known as ShapeWriter, it looks brilliant to me.

Has anyone tried it?

codeMonkey 2008-09-10 15:44

Re: Swype - text input from the T9 people
 
That looks like really nice input method!

brontide 2008-09-10 16:11

Re: Swype - text input from the T9 people
 
A little too much magic. I would like to see some non-trained users take a shot at it.

coffeedrinker 2008-09-10 16:24

Re: Swype - text input from the T9 people
 
Fixing spelling too... that will become very popular. I could imagine people wanting such a thing just for their computer keyboards. He said he did 55 wpm which is faster than many can type.

Really neat concept.

geneven 2008-09-10 16:49

Re: Swype - text input from the T9 people
 
I don't believe that typing with a stylus can be almost as fast as typing with ten fingers.

jayden 2008-09-10 16:55

Re: Swype - text input from the T9 people
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by geneven (Post 222736)
I don't believe that typing with a stylus can be almost as fast as typing with ten fingers.

you are right: 40 vs 60 per minute
but this method is for on-the-go; while ten-finger-typing is for sitting.

nilchak 2008-09-12 20:18

Re: Swype - text input from the T9 people
 
Swype seems too cool for believeing. But if its really workaable as the demo showed, then it will (or should) spread to many mobile devices. The Nokia N800 sometime ?

jayden 2008-09-12 21:37

Re: Swype - text input from the T9 people
 
it is obviously good for typing words. there should be a words database to support it. i do not think it is good for typing random thing like HGIKDHSJKIHU. it will try to look in the database to match that, and give something un-wanted.

superbondbond 2008-09-12 22:42

Re: Swype - text input from the T9 people
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by jayden (Post 223442)
it is obviously good for typing words. there should be a words database to support it. i do not think it is good for typing random thing like HGIKDHSJKIHU. it will try to look in the database to match that, and give something un-wanted.

In addition to that, any technical use of the keyboard, such as typing bash commands. I can only imagine what it would try to substitute for "ps -ax |grep foo"

could be fun to play with, for about a minute.:rolleyes:

baksiidaa 2008-09-13 04:17

Re: Swype - text input from the T9 people
 
I bet you could use it to just type text like with the current on-screen keyboard.


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