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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 16, 2012
Swype finally has been updated for all you 1 percenters -- that'd be folks running Ice Cream Sandwich. It's been a long time coming -- Ice Cream Sandwich has been available on the Galaxy Nex...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 06, 2012
Here's one of those good news/bad news things, which we're going to tell in reverse. The bad news is that Swype, the uber-popular third-party keyboard that lets you trace your finger from le...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 05, 2012
Swype -- the top keyboard in the 2011 Android Central Readers Choice Awards -- on Twitter today announced that we should see a beta release for Ice Cream Sandwich at the end of January. Here's t...
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by Jared DiPane
Dec 21, 2011
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Swype has announced another update to its beta app, bringing some pretty neat features and adding some additional languages support. This update brings D...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 03, 2011
Sony Ericsson has a little surprise waiting inside the latest software update for its 2011 Xperia series -- a Swype-style "gesture input" system baked into the Xperia keyboard. After enabl...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 20, 2011
We've been in love with the Swype keyboard since, well, forever. But time and time again we've threatened to break up over the stupidest of things. Because Swype's business model is to g...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 06, 2011
What do you get when you combine the best in voice command with one of the best touchscreen keyboards? We might be about to find out, as Uncrunched reports that Nuance -- that's the company and ...
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by Richard Devine
Oct 03, 2011
Speed texting has a new champion, and it all went down at the Big Android BBQ in Austin, TX this past weekend.
The keyboard app used in the contest was Swiftkey X and with it the winner, Rach...
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by Joshua Munoz
Sep 09, 2011
YouTube link for mobile viewingSlideIT is currently in its fourth iteration, and with that comes the introduction of skins. Scoff as you might, customization and aesthetic appeal are important t...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 23, 2011
The uber-popular Swype keyboard just got a new beta version dropped on us, and it's a doozy. Version 3.25 brings new gestures -- like go from the Swype button to x to copy text -- plus shortcuts to G...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Aug 16, 2011
Sprint and Swype have teamed up to launch the latest version of the popular keyboard on the Nexus S 4G, available starting today. The update brings a bevy of new features to Swype, including a new cus...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 01, 2011
Update: We've gotten numerous reports in the comments on this post, in our forums and at Sprint's forums saying this update's bricking phones. Sprint acknowledged earlier in the day that there might b...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 25, 2011
We're big fans of Swype here at Android Central, and judging by its latest exhibit, so is the Museum of Modern Art. It's included the trace-based Android keyboard in a new interactive exhibit called &...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 13, 2011
Update 2: It's back, folks! Get to downloading.Swype has announced the latest beta (version 3.0 for those keeping score at home) and one of the big changes that come along with it is a speci...
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by Alex Dobie
Apr 26, 2011
During our recent hands-on time with the HTC Sensation at the HTC Roadshow in Manchester, we had a chance to see an as-yet unrevealed feature in HTC Sense 3.0 -- HTC Trace. This is a new additi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 11, 2011
The uber-popular Swype keyboard just got a pretty major update, and we think you're going to like this one. No talking, just bullet points:The hidden word tip window is "all but completely remove...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 31, 2011
YouTube link for mobile viewingWe know the Swype keyboard is pretty awesome. But try this on for size: Hank Torres, who is paralyzed from the shoulders down, set a world record with Swype and a head t...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 29, 2010
What a year it's been, eh? Think back. We started with the announcement of the Nexus One and Android 2.1, and we're closing out the year with the announcement of Android 2.3 Gingerbread and the prosp...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 20, 2010
You read that right, folks. For those of you waiting to officially get in on the Swype keyboard, you'll wait no longer. The beta program has opened up to anyone able to type in a little user informati...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 18, 2010
We know how sensitive some of you are regarding app size. It's OK. It's nothing to be ashamed of, and you're not alone. And the fine folks at Swype fully sympathize and are now offering a "micro...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 15, 2010
HTC has confirmed to us that a maintenance update (3.70.651.1) is being pushed out to the Sprint Evo 4G as we type. No, it's not Gingerbread. Gonna have to wait a while for that, folks. Instead,...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 08, 2010
Judging from all the e-mails we just got -- including one from Swype that says we were accepted into the beta program -- it looks like a new round of Swype invites has gone out. Trust us, folks, it's ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 04, 2010
If you're rocking the "beta" version of Swype (we put beta in quotes because if it didn't come preloaded on your phone, it's the only version you're legally supposed to be using -- nudge nud...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 11, 2010
For those of you rocking the Swype beta -- ie it did NOT come presinstalled on your phone -- it just got a pretty sizable update. Here's the full changelog:Resolved an accuracy issue that was int...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 11, 2010
If you're rocking the Swype keyboard -- the beta version, not the one that's preinstalled on newer phones -- you likely just got an e-mail telling you it's time to update. Couple of reasons ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 09, 2010
T-Mobile has finally pulled the curtain out from over the HTC G2, the follow-up to the smartphone that marked the launch of Android. The G2 also is TMo's first HSPA+ smartphone (it's debatedly c...
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by Kyle Gibb
Sep 01, 2010
Motoblur is alive an well in Motorola's latest European offering, the Defy. The phone is shipping with Android 2.1 ("Eclair"), which isn't quite yet inexcusable, but we're getting clos...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 23, 2010
Mellisa Thompson, of Salford, England, has broken the Guinness World Record for the fastest texter, using Swype on a Samsung Galaxy S with a time of 25.94 seconds. The previous record of 3...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 01, 2010
New York Times columnist extraordinaire David Pogue's given the Droid X for a spin, and in turn he's spun-off a bit about the phone's keyboards. It has a multitouch keyboard by default -- I...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 24, 2010
There's a Reuters story going 'round today in which Swype CEO Mike McSherry (hey, Mike!) expects his keyboard -- which we're big fans of, by the way -- to be on 50 phones by year's end. It's currentl...
