what keyboards are u guys using?

edlex · Dec 9, 2010

Geek Goddess said:
I just got an email this morning that they had activated my Swype Beta Account (I applied in October), so they have opened it up again for new users. I downloaded and installed the Beta with no problems. LOVE Swype!

Just got it too. I like the way the letters are laid out with this new swype beta. Plus the dedicated voice key. Guess I'll play around with this for a while.

AHWagner · Dec 9, 2010

Is there an App that allows me to use Swype for Portrait mode and another keyboard (such as Gingerbread or Froyo) for Landscape?

FergieandJesus · Dec 9, 2010

Little hlep here...I downloaded the .apk for the gingerbread keyboard. Installed it. How do I actually select to use it. It seems like I still have the old one. Thanks

HTCRALEIGHFAN · Dec 9, 2010

smart keyboard pro

love it!

pastafarian · Dec 9, 2010

AHWagner said:
Is there an App that allows me to use Swype for Portrait mode and another keyboard (such as Gingerbread or Froyo) for Landscape?

[APP][ROOT/Keyboard] Keyboard Manager - Dual keyboard: Portrait/landscape switch - xda-developers

Word of warning, it's a bit buggy. I ended up using Ultra Keyboard which allows for a swype like experience in portrait and a standard action keyboard in landscape.

EarlyMon · Dec 9, 2010

Just a mod note - pastafarian links directly to the developer of that app (Keyboard Manager), who is giving it away for free at that site - so this is also NOT a violation of our no-apk rules.

AHWagner · Dec 9, 2010

pastafarian said:
[APP][ROOT/Keyboard] Keyboard Manager - Dual keyboard: Portrait/landscape switch - xda-developers

Word of warning, it's a bit buggy. I ended up using Ultra Keyboard which allows for a swype like experience in portrait and a standard action keyboard in landscape.

Dang its for rooted phones. I don't want to root just yet. Anything else?

pastafarian · Dec 9, 2010

AHWagner said:
Dang its for rooted phones. I don't want to root just yet. Anything else?

I don't think so, and I looked. If you find anything similar, please post it up here!

AHWagner · Dec 9, 2010

Thanks, I'll see what I can find..if I can find anything haha

Drew5150 · Dec 9, 2010

Jeffruby said:
The only bad aspect of gingerbread keyboard that I can see is that the touch to correct feature doesn't work right. If you touch a word, then click on a suggested replacement, it puts new word in between old word.

yeah I get this too. it also happens when you back space on a word and select a new suggested word. I found some of the auto punctuation doesn't work as well as the froyo keyboard. other then these things I am loving the new keyboard.

I am hoping the word correction is just due to it being a port and prediction had to be added.

MsRandall · Dec 9, 2010

younggreenanne said:
My husband and I both have HTC Evos: he got his in June and he got me my own in August. Oddly, my Swype Beta invite email arrived last night but my husband hasn't gotten his Beta invite. He is a little sad, so I told him the file size was huge and Swype wasn't as good as I remembered.

Um, it IS as good as I remembered. I just don't want to gloat.

Have him log on to the beta site I didnt get an email but tried to log on and I was able to get in and resend the email I never got.

fourgee · Dec 10, 2010

Just got swype. Pretty impressed although I'm not a "power user". I may do 2 texts a month, mostly email & search. But so far it works pretty damn well. I don't understand why they're still in "beta".

K4KAI · Dec 10, 2010

HTCRALEIGHFAN said:
smart keyboard pro

love it!

^^ What he said !!

i.have.droid · Dec 10, 2010

edlex said:
Just got it too. I like the way the letters are laid out with this new swype beta. Plus the dedicated voice key. Guess I'll play around with this for a while.

Yep, I got it also..thank god!! I have swype again and it has a mic..I'm done.

Cares · Dec 10, 2010

Looks like Swype might have made another beta test "push" and a bunch of invites were sent out again this morning....

iHeathen · Dec 10, 2010

Cares said:
Looks like Swype might have made another beta test "push" and a bunch of invites were sent out again this morning....

Yes, indeed they did send out more invites.

I received my invite to Swype beta this morning and have installed it and am liking it, well except for the size of it. :mad:

10mb!

brownhornet · Dec 10, 2010

I mean how long is swype going to be in beta.... forever? Are they ever actually going to put out a version on the market that you can actually just buy?

shandroid · Dec 10, 2010

New Swype version is kicking ass right now.

Brian Rubin · Dec 10, 2010

Yeah, I've been liking it. I wish I could customize it a bit more, like making the smiley key permanent, but I'm liking it a lot.

Drew5150 · Dec 10, 2010

brownhornet said:
I mean how long is swype going to be in beta.... forever? Are they ever actually going to put out a version on the market that you can actually just buy?

yes forever, it will not ever be in the market.

swype is oem software only. meaning the phone needs to be sold with swype installed. like the epic 4g.

the evo was not released with swype, so we will never see it fully released. and it will never be available in the market. not unless swype changes their business angle.

anyway you are not missing very much. its only good if you only ever type in portrait, which is never for me. in landscape our screen is too wide to make swyping useful and taping the keyboard is terrible. not to mention the horrible word suggestion bubble. the stock android keyboard is leaps and bounds ahead swype IMHO. way more accurate and word suggestion/prediction is awesome. no real need for swyping when you can just voice text

Drew5150 · Dec 10, 2010

swype sucks, stock android keyboard is bar far the best i have used

shandroid · Dec 10, 2010

^^ swiftkey > stock android KB

New Swype is much more accurate than in the past from what I can tell.

brownhornet · Dec 10, 2010

I mean I have a version that never expires anyway so its not that... the way that they handle it just seems silly to me. Since I started using the gingerbread keyboard I dont use swype anymore.

ogxenergy · Dec 10, 2010

can anyone explain to me on the hell you get the gingerbread keyboard on a stock 2.2 evo

FergieandJesus · Dec 10, 2010

ogxenergy said:
can anyone explain to me on the hell you get the gingerbread keyboard on a stock 2.2 evo

+1...although I did get the email to try the swype beta and I like it so far. Really want to try this gingerbread keyboard though. Just need to figure out how to install on nonrooted 2.2. :mad:

what keyboards are u guys using?

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