What the folks at Swype appear to be doing here is working with real users to find what keyboard they want to use the most instead of forcing a new user interface on the user each time they’ve picked up a new device. Options on top of options, keyboards in several locations so that you might choose the best location for you, and a real understanding of how a keyboard on a tablet is used, for all sorts of different users. While we’ve tried essentially every 3rd party and stock mobile keyboard in the book, Swype proves again here why they’re the people’s choice. What we’ve experienced thus far in the beta version of this newest Swype is a slightly buggy but overall very promising future for the group and the app. Before we continue to decide whether this version of Swype is all the hype, let’s get to the hype! What you’re about to see are two very fabulous demo videos of the system in action, direct from the team at Swype for your pleasure: Words like lyfe, schnizzle, and dinglefritz.

You’ve also got predictive tapping, a horizontal word suggestion bar, and lots of options for making your Swype library learn new words. You’ll be able to type in both landscape and portrait orientation and you’ve got a brand new option to turn the keyboard into a tiny version that you can drag anywhere, left to right, on the bottom of your display. This version of Swype supports multiple resolution sizes including qHD, HVGA, WVGA, QVGA, WQVGA, WSVGA, and FWVGA.

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