I am a big fan of swype and have been a beta tester for quite a while. (Legitimate beta tester that is). In any case, I've emailed many suggestions, found bugs, etc., but the newest version is very buggy. And the fact that they will not give a firm date for a release is frustrating.
Anyways, I decided to try ultra keyboard. Here's my assessment. I used the Hero theme which gives larger keys, and I set it so it was the full keyboard (instead of the compact mode with shared keys). You can turn trace on which makes it very similar to swype, except if you pause over a letter it keys in that letter to make sure it doesn't guess a wrong word. This really made typing a lot more accurate. It does have a menu that lets you navigate left, right, up, down, text select, etc which is quick to access. You can enable multi-touch at the same time as swype, which means you can turn the phone to landscape and choose to either swype or thumb-type. In landscape mode, the thumb-typing for me was as good (if not better) than the ported over droidx multitouch keyboard. On top of that, it has the voice to text button which works quite well. Not to mention, you can customize the skin, keys, etc, and it has a cool feature under the keyboard options labeled "turn on camera" which makes the keyboard transparent and displays the view through your camera behind the where you are typing. This way, if you are texting while walking you will not run into poles, potholes, cars, etc. This has never been a problem for me, and I probably will not use it, but it is one of many neat little features it has.
From using it a little under 24 hours, I feel this is a much more polished keyboard than swype with a lot more options. I'll be spending the $2.79 (or whatever it is) and purchasing it this afternoon. I would advise any swype fan who is getting frustrated to try the free trial and see if it is right with you.
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