The Magic of Swype, a Touchscreen Breakthrough
June 18, 2010Another bus ride, another blog post from my phone.
With my Droid Incredible, though I love the native typing interface, I do find typing long passages with my thumbs to be problematic. Sure, the autocomplete features are great and help in a lot of ways, it’s still tough to type long messages.
I, like I’m sure everyone else, have seen the blackberry commercial with the guy setting a record for text messaging by dragging his finger around. I figured it was a gimmick. So, when I heard about the beta for droid users, I was skeptical.
Then a friend and coworker, Matt, tweeted about Swype, and how he recommended trying it, I decided to go for it. It’s been two days and I’m more than happy I made the switch.
The intelligence, for lack of a better word, is nothing short of impressive. Rarely does it get a word wrong and even then I feel like I screwed something up.
I was worried about a learning curve, and having it not be worth my time, but it took very little time to get used to it and I was quickly able to type far faster than with a traditional QWERTY touchscreen.
Every now and then, someone comes up with something so simple and so easy to use, it’s just mind-boggling. Swype is like that.
