It’s goodness to see innovative engineering be rewarded and I was tickled garden pink to hear that Swype said it’s technology volition be on more than 10 million handsets by the end of the year, according to BusinessWeek.
If you’re unfamiliar with the stimulation engineering, it was created by the guy who invented T9 and it lets you tracing paths between letters instead of tapping them out. As you can see from the video recording below, it tin be much quicker than standard soft keyboards on Windows Mobile or Android. There was a limited beta for Android that I found to be quite slick, although it did yield my reptile brain about 2 years to get comfortable with it. It appears Swype volition be focusing more on licensing the engineering to handset makers rather than doing a direct-to-consumer method.
Granted, it’s flirt with lease users install it directly but handset deals are probably a bettor wager to spreading it to as wide of an audience as possible. The Samsung Omnia II was the first base U.S. production handset to rock the keyboard and people have already used this to break texting world records. If you’re dream of this for the iPhone, I wouldn’t hold my breath.
Swype was approached by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and asked to demonstrate its technology, [Swype chief executive officer Mike] McSherry says, explaining that Apple was impressed with his merchandise but later expressed “disappointment” when he said Swype was licensing it to other earphone makers.
Interestingly enough, Swype said the fact that it’s not on Apple products actually helps it during negotiations because it is an easy means to stand out from the iProducts. There’s no functionary version for the iPhone OS but a Swype engineer has created unity in his spare meter, the troupe said. Check out the video recording below for a demonstration of Swype versus the iPhone’s software system keyboard.
[Via BusinessWeek]