We have plenty of people here who love them some SwiftKey. It is one of the top alternative keyboard choices for Android alongside Swype and FlextT9. SwiftKey has just announced that they have saved users a combined 10 billion keystrokes thanks to their word-predicting engine. And to celebrate, are giving away tablets, launches of trial applications, and support for six new languages.

If you want to get in on the fun, and happen to be a SwiftKey user, then follow these easy instructions to enter yourself in to win a Vizio tablet.

To enter the drawing, SwiftKey users are being asked to tweet how many keystrokes they have saved – a stat available in their app’s settings – along with the hashtag #SKX10bn. And for Android users yet to try SwiftKey, the company has just launched two new free trial apps, so users can give the award-winning technology a shot and then submit their tweet. One winner will then be randomly chosen and contacted via direct message at the end of each day.

If you choose to enter, then good luck to you. I would love for people to put down in the comment section how many keystrokes they have saved. Are Droid Life readers anywhere near at least a billion?

Via: SwiftKey, SwiftKey Twitter

Everyone here definitely has their own opinions on what their favorite keyboard is. Whether it be Swype, FlexT9, Swiftkey, etc, each one of those has their certain niche which works for individual people. Well, TouchPal thinks you’re all wrong, but it isn’t entirely your fault. You just don’t know about their awesome new input system yet. 

I’d say at this point, we’ve probably talked enough about Swiftkey and their new X keyboard for you guys to know how much we enjoy it.  Seeing it as today’s free app of the day through Amazon is probably making it one notch cooler though.  Go grab one of the best text predicting machines on the planet!

Market Link

Cheers Chris, EvantheGamer, Albert and everyone else!

One of our favorite keyboards of all time, Swiftkey X, has come out of its closed beta and entered the Android Market for both phones and tablets.  Actually, today marks the first anniversary of this fantastic keyboard, so the crew behind it has decided to cut the price for both by 50% or so to $1.97.  We tend to avoid recommending things, but this is one of those apps that we would suggest you jump on while it’s so cheap.  The ability that Swiftkey possesses to correctly predict letters, words and even sentences is unlike anything we have seen from any other keyboard in Android.

Market Links:  Tablet X | Phone X

Anyone using Swiftkey as their daily ‘board?

Cheers Shane, Giorgio, Barry and others for the reminder on this!

Members of Swiftkey’s VIP beta program, please check your inboxes.  You should have received an invitation to download the new version for both tablets and phones within the last couple of minutes.  Each of the updates appear to be more than just bug fixers, especially the tablet version which has reworked layouts for both portrait and landscape.

If you haven’t signed up yet to be a part of their beta program, now would be a good time to head over to their site.  As many of you know, Swiftkey is easily one of our favorite keyboards of all time.  

Swiftkey X has arrived.  We all knew that Swiftkey was almost too good at reading your mind, right?  It’s actually hard to imagine that it could get better at it, but it just did.  You may remember a beta version that went into testing a little over a month ago that analyzed your Facebook, Twitter and Gmail accounts?  Well, that version has now become public as version X.  In the past, Swiftkey would simply analyze all of the texts you would send, but with the ability to analyze all of your social networks, it can truly learn from the way you talk to your friends, family and random iPhone friend.  It truly is one of the best keyboards on Android.  

Swiftkey, one of our favorite keyboards of all time, received an update today to beta version 2.0.2.8 which includes enough new features and stability that their team has opened up the program to everyone for one day only.  Normally a “VIP” program, Swiftkey beta has been something that only a select group of people were able to join, sort of like the old days of Swype – you should definitely jump on this opportunity.

Join at this URL using code #swiftkeyFRIDAY:  http://www.swiftkey.net/vip

If you a part of the Swiftkey beta program, then you are likely already enjoying a new update that just went live this morning for both phone and tablet.  What was included, you ask?  A new Personalization service tops the list and allows one of our favorite keyboards to learn from some of your most used services such as Gmail, Facebook and Twitter.  Similar to the way Swiftkey already learns from your SMS app, these new Personalization features take the learning a step further and into your social life.  Makes sense, right?

Other phone changes:

• Adjusted prediction parameters to improve prediction and correction
• Improved response times
• Improved battery usage

Other tablet changes:

• Adjusted prediction parameters to improve prediction and correction
• Increased split-screen key size
• Improved response times
• Improved battery usage
• No keyboard animations (for improved speed)

To get these new betas, you’ll have to join the Swiftkey VIP program which is free.  You can sign up at the links below.

Phone thread | Tablet thread