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SwiftKey Beta Keyboard in market

I downloaded it, could not get the Swype beta to function correctly at all when I tried it. It wouldn't "swype" anything I had to manually type in the words as if I were using the stock keyboard. Tried to uninstall/reinstall multiple times, it never worked.

So far I like the SwiftKey keyboard, haven't used it much being that I am at work, but I will keep trying it. Mainly because it actually works unlike Swype.
 
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Keyboards Tried:
Stock (Touch Input)
MotoX
Swype
SwiftKey

My Default:
MotoX

As a two handed texter, portrait or landscape, Swype wasn't a solid fit for me. Now I am not saying that it isn't an exception keyboard because it really really is. The MotoX multi-touch keyboard just fit my needs better and allowed me to type faster 2 handed than Swype would allow 1 handed.

However, I am trying SwiftKey and I like it a lot. Same excellent touch response as the MotoX (with the awesome addition of vibrating feedback). I'd like a mic button and a few other little things but I am going to give it a week and see what its 'learning' abilities really are.

I want to say this though, the vibration I thought would be a deal breaker on the X keyboard and it ended up being too good of a keyboard for that to happen. I am hoping the lack of mic and others, double space to period function can be overcome by its awesomeness.
 
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Keyboards Tried:
Stock (Touch Input)
MotoX
Swype
SwiftKey

My Default:
MotoX

As a two handed texter, portrait or landscape, Swype wasn't a solid fit for me. Now I am not saying that it isn't an exception keyboard because it really really is. The MotoX multi-touch keyboard just fit my needs better and allowed me to type faster 2 handed than Swype would allow 1 handed.

However, I am trying SwiftKey and I like it a lot. Same excellent touch response as the MotoX (with the awesome addition of vibrating feedback). I'd like a mic button and a few other little things but I am going to give it a week and see what its 'learning' abilities really are.

I want to say this though, the vibration I thought would be a deal breaker on the X keyboard and it ended up being too good of a keyboard for that to happen. I am hoping the lack of mic and others, double space to period function can be overcome by its awesomeness.

I've tried all the same ones as well, and so far SwiftKey is my favorite. I really liked Swype, but I kept running into issues with my fingers sticking to the screen and it's really tough to type if you aren't using the "swype" action. So I've started looking for alternatives and I was using the MotoX keyboard, but I think this better.
 
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I've tried all the same ones as well, and so far SwiftKey is my favorite. I really liked Swype, but I kept running into issues with my fingers sticking to the screen and it's really tough to type if you aren't using the "swype" action. So I've started looking for alternatives and I was using the MotoX keyboard, but I think this better.

Agreed, I think this keyboard has some serious potential
 
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Keyboards Tried:
Stock (Touch Input)
MotoX
Swype
SwiftKey

My Default:
MotoX

As a two handed texter, portrait or landscape, Swype wasn't a solid fit for me. Now I am not saying that it isn't an exception keyboard because it really really is. The MotoX multi-touch keyboard just fit my needs better and allowed me to type faster 2 handed than Swype would allow 1 handed.

However, I am trying SwiftKey and I like it a lot. Same excellent touch response as the MotoX (with the awesome addition of vibrating feedback). I'd like a mic button and a few other little things but I am going to give it a week and see what its 'learning' abilities really are.

I want to say this though, the vibration I thought would be a deal breaker on the X keyboard and it ended up being too good of a keyboard for that to happen. I am hoping the lack of mic and others, double space to period function can be overcome by its awesomeness.

I really liked the feel and how fast the DroidX keyboard was but what killed it for me was the fact that it didn't have the option to long press for punctuation you had to go to the number or long press on the period to get all the options. Not a fan of that. I like being able to hold down p to get zero etc...
 
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I have been swyping since December starting out on my Eris, I Love the swype concept but have been struggling with it since what seems like I switched to my Incredible. I am a one handed texter and it seems like while using my Eris swype was a lot more error tollerant. I find that with my Incredible I have to go two handed or I end up correcting every 3rd word? I have tried adjusting settings and just am not as comfortable with it as I use to be. Gonna give some swiftkey a shot!
 
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I tried swiftkey this morning when I saw the write up on phandroid but I uninstalled it because it keeps track of what you're saying and I'm worried about my personal info being stolen (usernames, passwords, cc numbers, etc)

That for me is a deal breaker...

Don't know what you've been using but Swype also warns and performs of the same keystroke logging.
 
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