Swiftkey 3 leaves Beta, now available at a 50% discount

[Guest PaulOBrien]

Swiftkey 3, the brilliant software keyboard for Android, has now left Beta and is available in the Google Play Store with a 50% discount to &#036;1.99 / £1.49 / €1.99 for a limited time.<br />

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The update has been in a Beta phase via Swiftkey&#39;s innovative 65,000 member strong VIP programme allowing the company to test, tweak and fix the product with a large audience. Version 3 brings a number of improvements, including:<br />

• Updated themes including an ICS style &#39;Holo&#39; theme and the new &#39;Cobalt&#39; default theme<br />
  
• Smart Space – automatically detect mistyped or omitted spaces across strings of sloppily typed words in real-time<br />
  
• Enhanced UI – a much larger space bar and smart punctuation key help improve accuracy and make it quick and easy to access common punctuation<br />
  
• Additional languages – SwiftKey 3 now offers support for an additional seven languages, bringing the total up to 42

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When I first tried the Beta, I have to confess I didn&#39;t really like it as Swiftkey had changed the punctuation input to share a single key. Thankfully, through user feedback and multiple Beta iterations the application is refined (now with a dedicated comma key and re-arranged punctuation list) to the point where I&#39;ve fallen in love with it again. <img src='http://www.modaco.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /><br />

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As well as adding new features, version 3 fixes a few niggling issues i&#39;d had with the previous version (inputting text in the Chrom Omnibox for example).<br />

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Swiftkey is available now for both Phones and Tablets and is a free upgrade for existing users.<br />

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Thanks to Randall Munroe of xkcd.com

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[Guest hecatae]

How long is the limited time period, some people don't get paid til back end of next week.

[Guest mytoza]

I love Swiftkey and own both the phone and Tablet version.

But what a shame that Swiftkey have not listened to the plea's of many of its users and added the arrow keys in to the tablet version of SwiftkeyX 3

It is just completely nonsensical to me that the arrow keys are available on the phone version, with a smaller screen so less room for the keys, and not available on the tablet which does have the space :(

[Guest Ascend]

How long is the limited time period, some people don't get paid til back end of next week.

One week according to Play Store

[Guest pyncmeele]

[Guest mahi garg]

I think this software will be helpful for everyone in future.Nice sharing post,thanks for it.