I've been using ShapeWriter and found it to be pretty good. Recently I tried out SlideIT, though, and think it's substantially better. It makes many fewer mistakes guessing what word I tried to trace, plus it has a full set of symbols on its symbol keyboard (multiple screens' worth), plus it has user-programmable abbreviations, plus it works with Dataviz Documents to Go. It has a real "shift" key, too, as opposed to ShapeWriter's somewhat kludgy post-facto "change case" button.
If and when the Swype company decides to release a version of Swype I'll take a look at it. Currently, all the copies of Swype in circulation are pirated and released against the company's wishes -- they only sell to handset manufacturer, not end users -- and as a software developer myself, it would be hypocritical of me to install a piece of pirated software. In the meantime, I'm happy with SlideIT; it's hard to imagine that I'd like Swype much better.
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