Does anyone think the next iPhone or iOS will have SWYPE texting?

Sadly I can't jb 'cuz my phone is hooked to our corporate mail servers and our IT guys would kick me off if I jb. Hopefully the jb community and competition from Android will force Apple to reduce restrictions. I don't think I'd like swype, but I don't like not being offered the option to evaluate it for myself.
 
The only thing I can see swype being used for, and it seems easier is the unlock password. Why? Because often I'm walking or even driving and need to unlock my phone, typing in the password is quite difficult with one hand. Swype does make it better.
 
swype is the best feature in an android and i don't know how i'm going to live without it when i change over to iphone 5... been using it for 3 days, and it's faster than a regular touch screen keyboard. i hope all the pros of iphone will make it up. :(
 
Thats the only thing I miss from my Galaxy S1...
Sometimes I wish I had swype keyboard on my macbook air ^^
 
MadGoat said:
I tried swype and I really don't get how this is better. I much prefer using my standard typing.
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Agreed. I have tried the swype texting and I freaking hate it. I have been typing individual characters since I was a wee lad. It's just my way of typing. I got used to the virtual keyboard as it has a similar input. Individual keys. Sliding my fingers from letter to letter is something I'll probably never get used to. It just takes me longer to type a message. However, I've seen people just fly with using the swype method. Results may very.
 
jetblk328i said:
Tried it on Android and hated it....I would like to see it as an option so I can try it out a bit more.
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PorterRocks said:
Agreed. I have tried the swype texting and I freaking hate it. I have been typing individual characters since I was a wee lad. It's just my way of typing. I got used to the virtual keyboard as it has a similar input. Individual keys. Sliding my fingers from letter to letter is something I'll probably never get used to. It just takes me longer to type a message. However, I've seen people just fly with using the swype method. Results may very.
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It has a learning curve to it and once you get over it people tend to really like it.
I use it from time to time and like it but my main keyboard is Swiftkey.

My biggest problem with Swype is not Swype itself but sometimes (big time in the morning) my hands are so dry that the screen loses sense of me touching it and ends the word. It has been that way across multiple touch screens so I know it is my hands so nothing I can do about it. Hence the reason I tend to use Swiftkey now days.
 
I hope iPhone phone gets swype or something similar to it. I doubt it will happen, but I believe WP7 is getting something similar to swype too. Hope apple jumps the bandwagen.
 
NOPE I dont want swype, I much prefer the keyboard how it is now, for one reason:

I am sat in the middle of a very humid heatwave and even my normally dry very ungreasy hands are very slightly clammy and as a result they do not at all want to 'slide' accross a touch screen all they do is keep sticking to the screen.

yes you could have it so you can 'tap' and 'slide' (as I understand swype is) but where is the consistancy in that, you swype on a dry day and are forced to 'tap' on a hot humid day, I say just stick to tap who cares if it takes a couple of seconds longer to write an email, sometimes I think people just are too obsessed with outright speed.
 
Would be handy to have 2 or 3 different input methods, standard KB being one, Swype the 2nd option and what about the old T9 predictive text Symbian type layout???? Or is that outdated and ineffective??
 
Swype tech is cool but it's not as efficient as it should be. The iPhone PTE is decent enough to type using one hand. The next major upgrade will be the Nuance voice dictation and voice recognition systems which the iPhone direly needs. Dragon Dictation that Nuance created for the iPhone works pretty well and I've been using that to dictate e-mails via jawbone but overall, if Apple integrates it into the phone by default, it's going to revolutionize the mobile phone industry with it's ease of use. Granted, the tech is old and Google already has it on Android. It's not who comes first into the market, it's about who prioritizes user experience in the market to gain market share.
 
whtrbt7 said:
Swype tech is cool but it's not as efficient as it should be. The iPhone PTE is decent enough to type using one hand. The next major upgrade will be the Nuance voice dictation and voice recognition systems which the iPhone direly needs. Dragon Dictation that Nuance created for the iPhone works pretty well and I've been using that to dictate e-mails via jawbone but overall, if Apple integrates it into the phone by default, it's going to revolutionize the mobile phone industry with it's ease of use. Granted, the tech is old and Google already has it on Android. It's not who comes first into the market, it's about who prioritizes user experience in the market to gain market share.
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how? :rolleyes::rolleyes: Do you have any idea how its implemented in Android?
 
I LOVE Swype. I've used it and the keyboard option may be the 1 thing that made that HTC phone better than my iPhone. Plus, it doesn't come up with WHACK word suggestions like my iPhone can do sometimes! The option would be excellent.
 
Oh man! I love me some Swype :) I got in on the early betas with a buddy of mine when we had Droid Incredibles.

I know they made an app long ago, but it was only to showcase the tech. I would kill for Swype on iPhone.
 
For single handed typing, Swype is much much better than the standard iOS keyboard. If you type with both hands, than I don't think it's must of an advantage. I prefer to type one handed in portrait mode so I would love to have Swype. Swype also works much better if you are very good at touch typing on a physical computer keyboard...if you know exactly where every key is, you can type very fast with Swype...if you have to look at the keys when typing, not so much. I found when I did use Swype, I could actually type without looking and it was great.
 
I'd say the split keyboard revealed at WWDC pretty much negates any possibility of SWYPE being included anytime soon.
 
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