BlindType is coming to the Android platform! As confirmed via an official blog post, the accurately predictive virtual keyboard replacement application is expected to hit the Android Market shortly.
So what exactly is BlindType and how is it different? It lets you type the way you usually do on a touch screen – sloppy and full of errors – and it fixes your typing using an impressively accurate predictable technology that has never been seen before. BlindType eliminates touch typing frustrations by automatically predicting and constantly adjusting to the user’s “perceived” keyboard and typing style.
With BlindType, users can type on the touch screen the way they are used to, but without the traditional need to constantly focus on the keyboard. Although this would typically lead to countless spelling mistakes that would be impossible to autocorrect, BlindType predicts what the user intended to write with a success rate not previously seen on any other system.
This video demonstrates the BlindType keyboard in action on the Nexus One:
BlindType was developed by Kostas Eleftheriou and Panos Petropoulos in less than a year. According to the developers, BlindType will support all major devices, including iPhone, iPad and Android phones.
For more information on the app’s release date, follow BlindType on twitter or visit their website.
What do you think about this technology in comparison to Swype?
Sources: Singularity Hub, BlindType
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What happens when you don’t know how to spell a word, is it going to work like a typical spell checker. I know that swype does a good job, but if there is a word you don’t know, then it doesn’t work to well.
What happens when you don’t know how to spell a word, is it going to work like a typical spell checker. I know that swype does a good job, but if there is a word you don’t know, then it doesn’t work to well.
From what I know, it has similar limitations as swype. If you mistype a word it doesn’t work too well.
From what I know, it has similar limitations as swype. If you mistype a word it doesn’t work too well.
Eh, I jumped on the pure virtual keyboard bandwagon to get a sleeker device, but virtual keyboards still seem so inferior to hard keyboards.
Agreed, i bought the Cliq XT(not a good phone) coming from the G1 and i couldnt stand texting on it just because i felt like i couldnt text as fast as i wanted to sometimes. I went through all the different virtual keyboards(i.e. better keyboard, htc ime, swype, android stock, and a bunch of inferior ones on the market. so now after i sold my cliq XT im back at the retired G1 and i rarely use a virtual keyboard but im actually excited to test this one out.
PHYSICAL KEYBOARDS FOR LIFE!!!!
Eh, I jumped on the pure virtual keyboard bandwagon to get a sleeker device, but virtual keyboards still seem so inferior to hard keyboards.
Agreed, i bought the Cliq XT(not a good phone) coming from the G1 and i couldnt stand texting on it just because i felt like i couldnt text as fast as i wanted to sometimes. I went through all the different virtual keyboards(i.e. better keyboard, htc ime, swype, android stock, and a bunch of inferior ones on the market. so now after i sold my cliq XT im back at the retired G1 and i rarely use a virtual keyboard but im actually excited to test this one out.
PHYSICAL KEYBOARDS FOR LIFE!!!!