Swype - A new way to key into your phone

Swype is a new way to input text into mobile phones based on touch screens which are all the rage now. Traditional T9 dictionaries in phones auto guess words from the keys you have pressed. But most new touch screen based phones have individual character keys and consequently you have to move fingers across more keys to input your text. Swype is a technique for making the process of typing into touchscreens easier.

Check out this video to get the idea.

To quote the swype website:


Swype provides a faster and easier way to input text on any screen. With one continuous finger or stylus motion across the screen keyboard, the patented technology enables users to input words faster and easier than other data input methods—at over 50 words per minute. The application is designed to work across a variety of devices such as phones, tablets, game consoles, kiosks, televisions, virtual screens and more.




Simply Trace a Path

The word “quick” was generated from tracing the path shown above in a fraction of a second, by roughly aiming to pass through the letters of the word. A key advantage to Swype is that there is no need to be very accurate, enabling very rapid text entry.

Swype is not yet available in production phones and is expected to launch soon on all touch screen mobile phones.