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Swype appears on Symbian
THE FASTER TEXTING SOFTWARE Swype has found its way onto the Symbian mobile phone operating system.
The software allows one continuous finger or stylus motion across the screen keyboard to input text, which means you can input words faster.
It works by letting you write each word with your finger and Swype works it out. According to the software maker you can stick in text at 40 words a minute.
The application is designed to work across a variety of devices such as touchscreen smartphones, tablets, game consoles, kiosks, televisions, virtual screens and more.
Apparently Swype wanted to get the software running on Symbian to take advantage of the fact that it is still the world's most popular mobile phone OS, at least this week.
Swype said it has worked closely with Nokia to get its software onto the Nokia S60 5th Edition handset. Swype plugs directly into the Symbian input method to integrate with every application on the device.
There is support for many different languages including that quaint colonial language spoken in the US and that strange version of French spoken in Canada where they forgot who won the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.
Swype for Symbian Beta is compatible with the Nokia 5800, Nokia 5230, Nokia X6, Nokia N97, Nokia N97 mini and Nokia C6-00. µ
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I am using Swype on my Nexus One, and it is a gods-end to typing on the display.
Hells bells, I remember this malarkey!
I believe it was when Alan Sugar still had dark hair and wore short-sleeve pinstripe shirts that he released a yolk that let you enter text this way, as did many other companies.
It lasted for a while as a fad, but then the clamshell Psions came along and put a stop to all such nonsense.
So am I to take it that one-letter-at-a-time handwriting recognition is the next big thing in organisers? And if so, would small but functional QWERTY keyboards succeed them in a few years on whatever spangly new WIDs come out, only to die out when people decide they want compact touchpad devices to act as mere viewers instead?
Like Shirley Bassey said, side-step the code segments prone to causing infinite loops.