"Torturous" was my assessment as well. No where near as fast as the virtual keyboard in landscape with predictive for me.I have yet to take the swype tutorial but I'll have to do it this weekend, otherwise I'm removing it. I'm sure I'm missing something or using it wrong because it's torturous to use and way slower than the standard app. Sure it's just me or I don't understand how it works but I will give the tutorial a shot since so many others like it.
You ARE swiping down to the apostrophe key as part of the word, right? Under the N?I'm definitely faster on the physical keyboard.
I can see how some people are faster on Swype, though, it is a pretty sweet input method. I don't know if it's adapting to my style though. I still get a lot of words I don't use as often as my first choice, which slows me down, and it still doesn't handle contractions very well, which I use often.
THANK YOU to Guchi for posting that link!! I just downloaded it and tried it and WOW! I love it! I was a police officer for over 16 years, very use to texting and driving for 12 hours a day! I couldnt text for crap one handed with my thumb (while driving) with this thing (my Droid). I was getting frustrated, coming from a Palm Treo 700wx that I loved. NOW I AM COMPLETE!! WOO HOO!!
THANK YOU to Guchi for posting that link!! I just downloaded it and tried it and WOW! I love it! I was a police officer for over 16 years, very use to texting and driving for 12 hours a day! I couldnt text for crap one handed with my thumb (while driving) with this thing (my Droid). I was getting frustrated, coming from a Palm Treo 700wx that I loved. NOW I AM COMPLETE!! WOO HOO!!
Longshot. I'm really interested in your rationale about texting while driving. As a police officer, I'd have thought you would be opposed to doing that.
I tried swype for a while but when I'm entering text my thumbs cover up to much of the keyboard so I have trouble navigating letter to letter.
Use your index finger!I tried swype for a while but when I'm entering text my thumbs cover up to much of the keyboard so I have trouble navigating letter to letter.
It does force one handed use. Also, if you are not very familiar with the keyboard, you're scewed. Hunt-and-Peck users, need not apply...
That being said...very cool technology. It's suprising how well it works.
I personally think Swype is faster, but like hutch said it does need some work. Just little things like no auto-capitalization for the first word in a sentence and not automatically adding a space after a comma. The auto-correction works pretty well in my opinion, it just needs a little optimization and it would be flawless.
We should probably get the developer on this forum ,if they are not already, and tell them about the little nuances so they can add it for the official release.