Rating: 4/5
As more people use mobile phones to communicate, so more people too are being frustrated by the usual keyboard experience. That’s where improvements such as Swype and Swiftkey come in.
Swype is a way of speeding up individual word input – rather than typing each letter, you simply move your finger from one key to the next, but don’t take your finger off the screen. The process is a lot faster than the traditional method of tapping.
But Swiftkey takes the idea to another level: this isn’t predictive typing. Instead it’s predictive messaging. So the software, once activated on your Google Android device, predicts what word you’ll type next. Begin a text “I’ll be…” and it guesses “late”, say. Tie it with your Facebook, Gmail or Twitter accounts and it can learn from your existing style.
The new beta version is free and potentially more accurate than previous iterations because of that integration into other services. Makers estimate that one third of all words are predicted correctly.
New input programmes take some getting used to – but this is a piece of software that, once adopted, can have a real impact on how you write messages. Most users – this one included – find it’s for the better.
New input programmes take some getting used to – but this is a piece of software that, once adopted, can have a real impact on how you write messages. Most users – this one included – find it’s for the better.
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