Swype has to be my favorite. It makes me feel lazy now when I type on a keyboard because I ACTUALLY have to pick my fingers up..what is this the stone age!?!
Swype. If you really want to know what people are using then check out the existing threads. There's plenty of discussion on various keyboard apps out there.
Yeah, I've tried a few and eaach seem to have their own assetts and shortcomings. So far SwiftKey is far and away my favorite. Played with Swype a few times and really didn't care for it.
I switch a lot, HTC stock, better keyboard 8, open wnn flick support or multling for Japanese, and swiftkey. I have to switch, sometimes with certain apps, my keyboard won't do any auto-correct! It'll work for one of my keyboards, but not another, and there's no rhyme or reason to which will work.
FlexT9. The Swype-like recognition is good, and the speech recognition is fabulous; much better than Google's. I can dictate a paragraph of a few sentences (as a single dictation) and then only need to make a few manual corrections.
I do wish that FlexT9 was as good as Swype with regards to the mechanics of fixing errors.
I've used Swype, SlideIT, and FlexT9 and have settled for the moment on FlexT9. I really prefer the suggestion bar to the pop-up style suggestions in Swype, and it's nice not having to squiggle for double letters and swoop down for the apostrophe in contractions. I do miss the numeric and cursor control keypads that Swype has, though.
I also use Hacker's Keyboard with ConnectBot for SSH, since it allows input of control characters and ESC without a trackball, which my current phone does not have. It works quite well, but the keys are too small for use on a regular basis.
Finally, I also use Inserty to facilitate entering frequently-used difficult-to-type phrases like my email address and passwords, as well as things like the current date and time.
If I add any more keyboards to my phone, my "input method" pop-up won't all fit on one screen any more!
I think when you have to tap out a word instead of swyping it, the FlexT9 keyboard is so much better than Swype.
When you miss a mistake with FlexT9 though, you can't click on the word and then pull up alternates, like swype. You have to delete and re-swipe it.
I'm still going back and forth, but been using FlexT9 mostly.
I'm hoping one of the 2 is going to have a killer update that winds up putting it ahead for good.
I also hate how both save tapped out words automatically in the dictionary. I wind up with hmmmm and awwww and things like that in my dictionary. I think though with FlexT9 those come up a lot less in the word choice windows. I'm just thinking now how that doesn't seem to bother me as much on FlexT9 as on Swype.
Thanks for the recommendations of the FlexT9. I've been a Dragon Naturally Speaking user for 8 years now and this is made by the same company (Nuance). Sometimes I just need to tap the keyboard, so this would be great.
I'm a longtime NaturallySpeaking user as well. In a post above, I mentioned dictating a paragraph; as in NaturallySpeaking, this works best if you explicitly dictate your punctuation when dictating to FlexT9. E.g. (quoting Churchill):
From now on comma ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put period
I have big hands and a normal size phone. The only portrait keyboard I can use is Keypurr. I use Swype for landscape, and Keyboard Manager to auto-select them based on orientation.
tried it and got rid of it. I typed too fast for it, and it would autocorrect my words to things I did not mean to type, nor would I notice until it was sent. annoying
If you can find it (it's on the Internet) Shapewriter is my favorite of all five text input keyboards I have on my Incredible. Swype and Swiftkey are tied for second.
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