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A few weeks ago, mobile news site MobileCrunch featured a sound and thorough look at the upcoming Android version of the Swype alternate keyboard for touchscreen phones, a gesture-enhanced QWERTY job which claims to speed up typing and make sending text sending text messages on Android as easy as, say, it was in 1999 on a very old Nokia.
Here’s Swype in action…
Unusually, MobileCruch is today telling its users how to download a ripped version of Swype, which is being (at this moment in time, at least) hosted on the internet here. To get it running, simply download and unzip the APK file, copy it to your phone’s SD card, then browse to it using a file manager and run the thing.
MobileCrunch recommends Astro File Manager for this last part, as do/did we seeing as it’s GREAT. And there you go – a newer and supposedly better typing tool.
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Yeah, TC’s been pushing that thing…we wrote about it a week or so back. This isn’t new tech at all, or a new invention – it came from IBM for smart phones back then in dinosaur days five years ago. It’s already available a couple different ways on iPhones, and ShapeWriter’s also available for Android, and has been a while.
I keep hearing this one’s specialer or something – I dunno, we’ve all got first-gen HTCs, so apparently we gotta wait to try it. ShapeWriter’s got a thirty-day full trial, if you want to try the two and compare. Personally, I had the same experience as a lot of people w/ShapeWriter – thought it was really cool at first, but it makes so many odd mistakes you end up doing a lot of deleting and typing, anyway.