There will be arguments about this for a long time, as it's unclear how experienced the iPhone typist in this demo video is. Based purely on the video, it would appear that Swype, the new text input technology from the inventor of the T9 keyboard technology for numeric keypads, Cliff Kushler, has the upper hand.Swype uses a on-screen keyboard as the iPhone does, but rather than typing one character at a time, you "swipe" your finger, holding it down until you reach the end of the word, sliding from key to key in the meantime. When the word is complete, you lift your finger.
In the video, the Swypist does a pretty good job. Whether or not it really would be an experienced iPhone typist is questionable, but one could see the technology being more accurate than pecking on an on-screen keyboard.
The technology will first appear on the Samsung Omnia 2, a Windows Mobile 6.5 device expected to be released by Verizon in early December. Next up, according to the company, is a new Android phone in the first quarter of 2010.
The iPhone? I'd love to see this technology to be on the iPhone, but guess what? It probably won't happen, for the obvious draconian Apple reasons.
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The concept is fantastic it was successfully implemented many months ago with a product called SlideIT
http://mobiletextinput.com/
The concept is fantastic it was successfully implemented many months ago with a product called SlideIT
http://mobiletextinput.com/
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