Tag: SWYPE

Likely inspired by the masses of people obsessed with texting, Cliff Kushler, co-inventor of T9, has one-upped himself with the release of Swype, a text-entry app now available on Android phones. Appropriately named, Swype gives you the power to swipe words into existence instead of frantically pecking at your touchscreen. With only a single instance of finger-to-screen contact, you tap the ...

It looks like the race is on to see who can offer the fastest text-entry for touchscreen phones. By now, everybody knows about Swype, which recently helped a man set a Guinness World Record for texting. But a new player is about to join this race. According to Engadget, Nuance, the company behind the hugely popular T9 predictive text functions in most phones, recently announced its T9 Trace ...

How fast can you fire off a text message? More than likely, not nearly as fast as 23-year-old Seattle resident Franklin Page. According to The Seattle Times, Page is the fastest text messager in the entire world. If his record of entering a 160-character phrase on a Samsung Omnia II cell phone in just 35.54 seconds holds up for a few months, Page will see his name written in the Guinness Book of ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Touchscreen typing on most Android devices isn't quite on the level of the iPhone or even a traditional BlackBerry-esque keyboard. Swype, a typing system that uses ...