Demo of Swype keyboard for Android

by Michael Oryl on December 29, 2009 10:57 pm

I managed to snag a few copies of the beta build of the Swype keyboard for Android a few days back and have been loving it. If you are not familiar with Swype, it is an on-screen keyboard that you drag your finger (or stylus) around to type words, instead of having to tap on individual keys. It was most notably seen on Verizon’s version of the Samsung Omnia II, a Windows Mobile device, but for this demo I used a Motorola DROID.

In any case, watch the video and pray that we start seeing this show up pre-loaded in future Android devices.

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MasterMuffin

If that’s real, I can now safely say that the X phone isn’t Nexus, but rather a slightly skinned Motorola phone (if that screenshot is true) because the “droid blast” icon doesn’t follow the design line of the other holo icons
Fievel

“Droid Blast” sounds like something you’d need to take Imodium to prevent from happening again.
- Justin Kos
  
  Makes me think of robots doing cocaine
etiggy

It was nice while it lasted, well, back to waiting for the next nexus in november.
chris pinkston

Love the way the render looks.
Ryan Behmanesh

The concept picture looks pretty sweet but the specs are a year old. If this is true, I’ll pass.
http://twitter.com/Space_0001 No name

Google should give Motorola chance with next nexus device or make multiple Nexuses with more then one manufacture.
Main problem in my point view with Motorola is slow update I hope after Google acquisition it will be faster I will skip this device if it is not Nexus and I will C if Motorola getting better in updating wise or not.
702Mike

Hate to kill the excitement here, but just by seeing the “droid blast” option we know it’s Verizon exclusive and that kills the possibility of it being a nexus. It would be cool to see software from all the different oem’s directly available for nexus devices or even all phones. For example, what if you like the build quality of a Motorola but the Samsung touch wiz software. Or you like HTC sense but want a removable battery and expandable storage options of Samsung Galaxy phones. This would also grant the ability to turn any hardware capable phone into a nexus style device as well.