Many of you are familiar with Swype. Many of us love it and use it daily. What some of you don’t know is that they are constantly looking to make Swype better and have been beta testing various updates with a selected group of users. This is not the Swype you have installed on your stock or potentially rooted device.
The Beta is up to version 2.10.52.13753, which taking a look at the version I have right now on my Samsung Vibrant (2.8.50.12808), I am pretty far behind. The latest update includes:
- Resolved an accuracy issue that was introduced in the last Beta update. New software features supporting additional languages were included in the beta before the test plan for those features was complete (it is a beta after all). Subsequent testing identified the accuracy issue and corrections made. These new tests have been incorporated into our regression testing to prevent future accuracy issues.
- Added Double-Tap-to-Edit and Cursor Restore
- Added microphone button (QWERTY only. Requires Google Voice Search be pre-integrated in your phone’s ROM)
- Added French & EXPERIMENTAL Chinese Pinyin languages
- Modified new word priority defaults. The word-choice-window will now be ordered more intelligently when encountering custom dictionary words
- Fixed a bug where an extra space would be added when replacing a word by Swyping after opening the word choice window
- Improved the “Hidden-Word” dialog handling so it doesn’t show up as often (more improvements to this next time)
- Improved prediction when handling various path collisions
- Lots of minor bug fixes
Thats a pretty good list of additions to an already really great keyboard. Any Beta testers out there care to comment on how the progress is going? Do you think an update will hit for the rest of the general users soon?
Via Swype Forums
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it won’t install on Phones that have swype preloaded, is there a way around this? I just get a message that says I have to remove my current version which is impossible without root since its part of the bloatware
to the best of my knowledge there isn’t a way around that. Technically there it is a BETA and updates for the testers. I’m sure it will be available sometime, just don’t know when. Id keep an eye out though because I’m sure there will be some sort of version you can install.
Some of you virgin (non-rooted – haha) guys crack me up. You want to use experimental software (beta) on non-rooted device. What do you expect is going to happen? Duh…
The whole idea about android is that it is an open source. How do you get into open source market, and keep the front door locked?
New swype beta works just great – better accuracy for sure. But at one time I tried to use word swype it came as detroit – how weird is that?
Doesn’t work on Dinc after updating.
THIS is the best Swype beta update yet… That last beta was a piece of shit!
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