Monday, August 22, 2011

New keyboard Swype hits Sprint, first with gestures, custom dictionaries

Chris Velasco — mobile enthusiast and writer who studied English and marketing at Rutgers University. Once upon a time he was a News intern for MobileCrunch, and between them, he worked in wireless sales at best buy. After graduation, he returned to the new TechCrunch for mobile as a full-time writer. He counts the advertising works, musical theater ... ? Read More

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It is hard to believe that it has been almost three years, Swype for the first time made a splash at TechCrunch 50, but he is quickly popped up on the phone after the tube. Easily one of the most popular alternative input methods there, Swype announced today a special agreement for the users of the Sprint Nexus S 4 G: you bring the hardware, they will give the latest version of Swype.

While the concept behind the keyboard remains the same, the new update packages some some nifty new tricks. The biggest by far is the recently added support for keyboard gestures: basic moves as cut Swype key (>-X), copy (Swype key-> C) and select all (Swype key-> A) everything here, but the new Swype integrates with some applications with aplomb.

Consider Twitter: If you select some text and napkins from Swype key via the 'T ' and ' W ' your Twitter applications open up and your giggle will be good to go. Ditto for addresses: allocate and steal from Swype key through the G and I, ' and Google Maps opens and note your way. Custom dictionary management also was pumped, which we hope to do the work of the specialized dictionaries are less of a headache.

Sprint 4 G Nexus S users receive updates only on the first (available on this page) is that, of course, is really just a fancy way of saying "the Sprint Nexus S 4 G users will have this exclusively for several hours before the hacking communities to find a way to break it." For all of you itching to get your fingers swyping at the latest and greatest, fear not: someone out there is bound to issue working. apk team soon.


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