Video: Swype vs. iPhone Typing Comparison, and for Android next year

It looks as whether Swype will be making its way to Android handset next year. Swype is an alternative keyboard whereby the user draws their finger amoung letters to profile a word and was created by the inventor of the T9 predictive text system reports techcrunch.

Apparently Swype has plus announced that the first mobile phone to incorporate Swype tech will be the Windows Mobile Samsung Omnia II on the Verizon Wireless network, but will hit Android net year additionally.

Basically the user of Swype literally swipes their finger across the keyboard to profile words, although I’m not too certain how it

defined which letter to use unless the finger needs to pause on each letter due, and soon after there’s the problem of the fingers being in the way and making it difficult to see where the letters are placed.

However, we have a short video demonstration of Swype in action for your viewing bliss below which is a side by side comparison of typing on a Samsung Omnia II against the iPhone. Looks simple adequate but in practice I’m not so certain.

[Source] James

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