Comments on: New Swiftkey Beta 3 Released with “Refined” Chrome Beta Experience, Improved Predictions and Gestures [Download]

By: Droid_n00b

Droid_n00b — Thu, 31 May 2012 18:43:00 +0000

I believe it’s because Swiftkey isn’t multi-touch capable, so if 2 fingers are touching the screen at the same time, it won’t register. That’s the ONLY reason why I’m not using it. Stock Multi-touch keyboard or swype for me until they allow multi touch.

By: Raven

Raven — Thu, 31 May 2012 15:21:00 +0000

I am currently using “FlexT9 Text Input”. It seems to be the best combination of Swiftkey like prediction and Swype like tracing without all of the Beta apk hassle as well as actual letter writing if you are in to that or Dragon powered speech input.

By: nwd1911

nwd1911 — Thu, 31 May 2012 14:41:00 +0000

What’s harder to give up than one hand typing/swyping is the dictation software. I really like the predictive text, but I use Dragon Dictation in Swype all the time. I’m not sure I can make it a full week on Swiftkey, but I’ll try.

By: Hoffman

Hoffman — Thu, 31 May 2012 07:25:00 +0000

*will

By: Hoffman

Hoffman — Thu, 31 May 2012 07:23:00 +0000

I too am hooked on Swype. It’s necessary on my tablet, but just updated Swiftkey Beta 3 onto phone and the predictive text is scary accurate. I’ll give it try for a while even though it weevil be hard to give up typing with just one hand.

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Thu, 31 May 2012 07:17:00 +0000

Thank you Kellex for this post

By: AndroidBum

AndroidBum — Thu, 31 May 2012 06:17:00 +0000

They layout that this keyboard is based on is so nineteenth century! Cramming the keys made for the mechanical typewrite on a small touch screen just doesn’t work.

An elegant and innovative solution like MessagEase (www.exideas.com) is a lot more appropriate. See this video to know what I mean.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26ayS-Ita6g

By: Sasquatch4ever

Sasquatch4ever — Thu, 31 May 2012 03:44:00 +0000

You know, I used to really love Swype back on my Droid 2. Its actually what stole me away from physical keyboards. Unfortunately my hands just aren’t big enough to Swype on the Galaxy Nexus.

By: jromash

jromash — Thu, 31 May 2012 02:07:00 +0000

this did not take me to the tablet version? am i missing something?

By: Nick Letsom

Nick Letsom — Thu, 31 May 2012 01:24:00 +0000

I really like SwiftKey’s reliable prediction and correction, but there are a few things I didn’t like about it
-If you mistyped a word even once, it would “learn” it and then suggest it the next time you tried to type that word, even if you spelled it correctly. It’s really intelligent. Which means when it does something wrong, it seems REALLY stupid.
-It was absolutely impossible to type out a URL to someone. Like, throw-your-phone-at-the-wall impossible. Even if you dismissed a suggested “correction” in your URL, it would randomly decide to change it anyways while you were typing further words.
-Perhaps it’s just because the keys don’t have the “popup” display unless you hold them briefly, but it always felt like the keyboard never provided as much feedback as the stock ICS keyboard.
-I hated the layout, especially the number pad layout.

Basically, I would really love to see a version that’s a stock ICS keyboard with SwiftKey’s prediction engine.

By: NYAvsFan

NYAvsFan — Wed, 30 May 2012 23:32:00 +0000

Yeah, I have ad free android. I tried disabling that as well as disabling avast. But no dice. Just “network error. Please ensure you have a data connection available”.

By: Brock Norman

Brock Norman — Wed, 30 May 2012 23:23:00 +0000

Are you using any adblockers by chance? If so, try disabling them then try downloading the language pack.

By: Brock Norman

Brock Norman — Wed, 30 May 2012 23:22:00 +0000

Nope, don’t need to be rooted.

By: Brock Norman

Brock Norman — Wed, 30 May 2012 23:20:00 +0000

On the ICS keyboard, tap & hold then release on the period button to insert a comma.

By: merryb

merryb — Wed, 30 May 2012 21:33:00 +0000

My Galaxy Nexus doesn’t let me choose the beta. Does the phone need to be rooted?