You get your choice between Swype and Motorola's multitouch keyboard, which is really pretty great.
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Interestingly, Google has also taken a page from Swype's playbook, adding "Gesture Typing" to its keyboard.
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What's less obvious -- and perhaps totally underrated by Dell's marketing team -- is the addition of Swype keyboard.
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It appears to be a modified version of Swype, where you form words by sliding your finger across the keys.
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The Swype keyboard has undergone a rapid transformation in the last year.
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It also comes with a Toshiba-branded file manager and Swype pre-installed -- though, as always, you can switch to the stock Android keyboard.
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Now, Swype Living Language allows people who opt-in to share and receive trending words and phrases in real-time, creating an up-to-date, crowd-sourced language model.
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An evolution of the Hotwords technology announced in September, Swype Living Language uses crowdsourcing to analyze new words and phrases in real-time, continuously updating our language dictionaries.
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The result is a predictive input experience that is incredibly simple and fast, with relevant, trending words and phrases supported as you swype, write, speak or tap.
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The Flex is configured to use SwiftKey by default, but if that's not your thing, you'll also find Swype and the stock Ice Cream Sandwich keyboard on board.
Even if you're not into Swype, though, these phones have some of the most generously-configurable input options we've ever seen on an Android phone without having to install additional keyboard.
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SwiftKey has been promising its own answer to Swype ever since it launched the SwiftKey Flow beta late last year, and the company's retort is at last finished.
Swype has also expanded dictation capabilities and now supports Dragon Dictation in a dozen new languages including Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Greek, Hebrew, Malay, Romanian, Slovak, Turkish, Thai, Vietnamese, and Ukrainian.
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In fact, we've found it hampers our workflow when attempting to compose an email or a simple text in Google Voice -- something the keyboard's Swype-like input mode handles with ease.
Swype now also features Smart Editor, which analyzes an entire sentence, flagging any potential errors for a quick fix and update, including suggesting the most likely alternatives based on contextual analysis.
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There's no getting around it: it's a faster, more accurate way to type, even compared with innovations such as Swype, which lets you "type" by swiping your finger from letter to letter.
Without prior experience, we were already typing much more accurately with Swype's taller and more responsive keys, plus its unique input method was also very refreshing and convenient most of the time.
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Diving into the supposed feature list, we're intrigued to see whether "gesture typing" will form a part of Google's new Android build -- the Carphone Warehouse compares it to Swype's finger-dragging input method.
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McSherry, who in a former life was the CEO of Android keyboard app Swype, acquired by Nuance in 2011, says that consumers are still getting used to the idea of talking to their smartphones.
In addition to integrating the power of Dragon voice recognition, Swype has also been augmented by integrating with personalized, intelligent dictionaries that learn and adapt to the words and phrases that people use most.
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Additionally, the inclusion of SWYPE facilitates speedy typing.
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By default, the T-Mobile Galaxy Note uses Swype as its keyboard, which is a rather perplexing decision, seeing as how Samsung's own keyboard is vastly superior -- save for the ability to trace words, anyway.
The Samsung combination of the stylus and their Swype-esque keyboard (or your finger) makes writing a big email a lot more pleasant and accurate than poking the awkward fringes of the slim iPhone 5.
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The stock keyboard also offers Swype-style typing and even throws in an extra bullet point for good measure: as you drag your finger from letter to letter, a box pops up showing you the word you're currently typing.
Hot on the heels of Swype's own beta, the Swiftkey beta is now available to download directly from the App Market, and once installed (along with language packs of your choice), it can be used in place of your stock Android soft keyboard.
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In addition to Swype, you've got access to the stock Android 2.1 keyboard (which some folks prefer) in addition to a Samsung one, which is further configurable as full QWERTY, XT9, or -- on the Captivate only -- a handwriting mode, though it's more trouble than it's worth.
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