Comments on: With 50M installs, Swype matures for phones, tablets

By: Ron Lirit

Ron Lirit — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:22:57 +0000

SlideIT has had tablet support, resizing and predictive tapping for months, not to mention a “horizontal suggestion bar”, which is so trivial it is not even listed as a “feature”. They can even combine tapping and swyping. I always feel that Swype is one step behind them and is just looking at what SlideIT does and coping it with a fancier look. Sorry, but the original is usually (and this is no exception) better.
http://www.mobiletextinput.com/Download/

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:50:51 +0000

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:42:28 +0000

Rovi – it looks like their beta program is open again. If you can register for it you can probably get 3.0b.

The Tap Correction is a big improvement, solves one of my key frustration with Swype. It lets you correct bad spellings without multiple taps to solve Swype’s automatic spacing efforts.

By: Ricky B.

Ricky B. — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:41:58 +0000

Hi Kevin;

I tried the new Swype out on my also-new EEE Transformer (*why* did I buy a tablet? x_x) and it has a great small corner mode, so you can use it with one hand like on a phone and it won’t overlap anything else.

It was slow and laggy for me — but I could see the appeal.

By: qddb

qddb — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:39:15 +0000

Kevin–thanks for the update. Would you be able to contact Swype & ask them why the beta is incompatible w/ the pre-installed version? I (like many) had Swype on my Galaxy S when I bought the phone and am interested in the beta. However I’m bummed that I’m excluded from the beta because I’d love to see how the improvements flow. Here’s one of the messages from the swype link.

Sincerely, bummed

•If your phone came pre-installed with Swype
DO NOT download this beta (it won’t work)

By: Rovi

Rovi — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:31:22 +0000

One thing that is not clear is that if Swype is really hardware or carrier dependent? When you say its available to “all”, does it mean that Swype has gone beyond being available to only on specific phones?
Is installing or upgrading to v3.0 also relevant for those who had Swype pre-installed (for example Droid X)? Looks like there is a whole licencing angle with this beta (they email you the licence code once you register, and you have to login during the installation process). I for one – having version 1.64 could not upgrade to version 3 (i.e. if I was supposed to do this manual update, and my installed version wouldn’t have automatically kept itself updated). I already have had word prediction as well since day one, so not sure what exactly is this update – unless ability to resize is the only key new element.