Swype, the alternate, line-drawing keyboard for Android that comes pre-installed on quite a few Android phones these days, is now available for download for everyone – for a limited period. And with a few of its features restricted. Great!
It’s not on the Android Market, though – it’s a direct download only from the maker. Here’s what you’ll get:
If you’re keen on trying it and haven’t already got it on your phone, head off over to the Swype Beta site and give it a go. We didn’t like it, to be brutally honest. A bit too fiddly, and requires too much learning from our tired old brains.
It’s smooth to use, the 1080p display is sharp, clear and bright, the device is extremely light and thin and therefore very pocketable and portable — much more so than other 5-inch phones we’ve used. And yet… we’re a bit unimpressed by the overall package…
A relatively high-spec smartphone, with a 4.5″ display running at 480 x 854 resolution and powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, plus the Ascend G510 arrives running Android 4.1.1 — albeit potentially hindered by Huawei only sticking 512MB of RAM inside it..
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
Arivind Abraham
/ June 18, 2010You guys are kidding right about not liking it? It’s so intuitive and my typing speed has increased almost threefold. Can’t see how this has not been introduced sooner!
Gary C
/ June 18, 2010It just made no sense to me. The fact that it was a bit jerky on my Magic didn’t help, either. And I didn’t like the way it handled words that weren’t in the dictionary.
But it’s on my Big List of ‘Things to Give Another Go’ at some time in the future though, you might be pleased to hear, seeing as everyone’s raving about it now.
Marcus
/ June 18, 2010So for those of us using ShapeWriter at the moment is there a reason to choose this?