Swype now Officially available (Free) on SanFran/Blade

[Guest Xenon0816]

thanks for the information about that!

I installed it and used it for the last couple of minutes and I find it a bit too slow... I mean if I swype a word it takes to long until the words appears.

Interesting is that I used swype on my old HTC blackstone with windows mobile and it was faster there.

I will go on testing it, maybe it grows on me.

[Guest jennie81]

Anyone else finding swype to not accept swype movements and just display a blue flash around the keyboard?

happened to me 3 times now and have had to re-install swype in order to make it work again.

J

[Guest Tim Ngwena]

thanks for the information about that!

I installed it and used it for the last couple of minutes and I find it a bit too slow... I mean if I swype a word it takes to long until the words appears.

Interesting is that I used swype on my old HTC blackstone with windows mobile and it was faster there.

I will go on testing it, maybe it grows on me.

Interesting, are you using the de-orangenated rom or the standard rom, I installed it before i custom rom ed my phone and it was a bit skippy but after the custome rom, works really fast. May also be a cpu issue, check nothing big is running in the background that doesn't need to be.

T

[Guest Stuart_f]

Anyone else finding swype to not accept swype movements and just display a blue flash around the keyboard?

happened to me 3 times now and have had to re-install swype in order to make it work again.

J

I had this a couple of times on the newest build of Swype 2.4.44 (I think) It didn't do it on 2.2.10, a reboot cures my problem though.

[Guest flatnote31]

I have been using swype for a while...and just switched to this beta version today...it's even better than before :unsure:

works like a charm.... cheers guys B)

[Guest ololizoz]

Is there a way to add more languages to it? (Swedish)

[Guest zurpher]

This has been bothering me too. Because it is implied that Swype are seeing what you type to help them make the beta. That would be a total no no.

Although this isn't from the Market, I think in the future Android devs (Google) are really gonna have to tighten up policies about apps and data, because a lot of apps are just getting too much data. Mobile vendors are seeing the platform as a free-for-all of data gathering. As if all the hard work to stop that on the Desktop suddenly doesn't matter or apply here. And it is shocking. Google are at the forefront of this.

We need good apps, hacks and of course Roms to really to stop all phoning home (or third parties) with things like phone ID, number etc. That there isn't even one proper cookie-killer app on android says there's a lot of growing up to do here.

Devs have got to STOP hard writing in Google as a trusted 'norm'. It isn't.

We need browsers totally without GOOGLE ANYWHERE IN IT AT ALL... That you can't turn off the Google-suggest-as-you-type in the default browser is concerning.

My word! ...but we still continue using apps that compromise our privacy. I am currently using Iron as my PC browser and we would need something similar for Android.

I will (try to) wait until swype is not so "data hungry" anymore.

[Guest mouseman99]

Lovin using Swpye. Really good for people with fat fingers like myself :D

I am however getting constant notifications from Watchdog to say that the CPU use is over 35%. Is this a concern? Should I increase the threshold on Watchdog to 40%? Does anyone else have a concern with the CPU use that Swype needs?

[Guest]

Lovin using Swpye. Really good for people with fat fingers like myself :D

I am however getting constant notifications from Watchdog to say that the CPU use is over 35%. Is this a concern? Should I increase the threshold on Watchdog to 40%? Does anyone else have a concern with the CPU use that Swype needs?

Using it too thanks OP - agree re fat fingers anyway lol. I've not monitored the battery usage....sorry

[Guest Manbag]

Amazing keyboard, loving it. Cheers for the link.

That's amzing! Many, many thanks!

Was wrestling with 8pen this morning but this is miles better!

[Guest 90180360]

I will (try to) wait until swype is not so "data hungry" anymore.

It's not. That's just a warning you get when installing any keyboard.

[Guest 90180360]

Did anyone watch the video of the presentation?

Their CEO seems to be completely delusional.

"Cliff invented the T9 predictive technology which has shipped on over 2.5 billion phones worldwide. That's billions. The opportunity for Swype is an order of magnitude larger."

Good luck with that ;)

Not saying it's not impressive, but I doubt that it will take off.

Broke my phone btw. Got constant reboots and had to factory reset.

[Guest cgk]

I tried this and swiftkey and I think that over time, that swiftkey is quicker because of how it learns your most regular responses - also it is only a £1 at the moment...

[Guest targetbsp]

Not saying it's not impressive, but I doubt that it will take off.

I wouldn't be so sure - one of my friends bought a Blade purely off the back of using Swype on mine!

[Guest womble_sanfran]

I am a total swype convert!

Are they signing us up as beta testers to get us hooked and then they will charge a massive fee for the full version? (a bit like drug dealers giving free samples!!)

[Guest 90180360]

Are they signing us up as beta testers to get us hooked and then they will charge a massive fee for the full version?

Nope, their business model is OEM licensing.

[Guest 90180360]

I wouldn't be so sure - one of my friends bought a Blade purely off the back of using Swype on mine!

Sure, some enthusiasts or maybe business users will love it, but 99.9% of all users will be just fine with the regular keyboard I think.

[Guest daveypro]

I am liking it a lot, sure some complex words like froyo (lol) it doenst like but your everyday language words are fine, i also like th voice option within it, that works well too

[Guest myhooose]

I was unconvinced until my non techie wife took to Swype like a duck to water on her Galaxy. Now its my preferred keyboard.

[Guest bigajm]

I installed the latest Swype 3.0 Beta on my Zte Blade/Orange San Fran today, stock 2.1 ROM, unrooted. Found it works fine, except for the Google Search field on my home screen. The keyboard appears to work properly but text is never actually entered into the search field. Has anyone else encountered this?

[Guest flshg]

I installed the latest Swype 3.0 Beta on my Zte Blade/Orange San Fran today, stock 2.1 ROM, unrooted. Found it works fine, except for the Google Search field on my home screen. The keyboard appears to work properly but text is never actually entered into the search field. Has anyone else encountered this?

This happens to me on skype after a certain period, maybe 20-30 messages. Changing input methods, then back to swype fixes it for me.

[Guest Tony Sidaway]

I can't imagine going back to "pecking" on the keyboard--not least because I'm a little too short sighted for the Android keyboard on my Blade. I can't guarantee to hit a given key every time, but the Swype method is much more forgiving. Getting the overall shape of the word on the keyboard is usually enough.

The recent update threw me a bit. The horizontal suggestion bar will take some getting used to and sometimes some odd defaults turn up. Maybe I had just become more attuned to the vertical bar than I realised.

This keyboard and Launcherpro have each had a far more profound effect on my Android experience than even my choice of the CyanogenMod firmware.

Edited June 21, 2011 by Tony Sidaway

[Guest bigajm]

This happens to me on skype after a certain period, maybe 20-30 messages. Changing input methods, then back to swype fixes it for me.

Thanks for the tip, that does fix it for a while.