Text input gets a fairly significant overhaul as well, representing a notable departure from common standards of controller-based typing.

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The newly available SwiftKey 4 -- Flow is just a component here -- brings Android writers the promised gesture-based typing along with Flow Through Space, which lets users glide to the spacebar to keep typing rather than pause after every word.

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Except software-based touch typing solutions haven't really extended beyond the cramped confines of mobile phones and tablets.

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My salary is not based on how many hours I do my own typing, answer my own phone or counsel my staff on issues.

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More than a decade after the Newton and 15 years after the DOS-based GRiDPad, handwriting recognition remains slower and less accurate than typing, active digitizers remain expensive, and marketers remain misled about the sketchy demand for pen computers.

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Starting in 2003 a series of rulings went in favor of advertisers who flash pop-up pitches based on where a user is surfing or what he's typing.

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