After initially trying a number of third party keyboards I've started using Swype almost exclusively. I happened to look at my battery usage stats last night and I was a bit surprised to see that Swype had used 6% of my battery in the past 24 hours and 5% in the past week.
Initially this seemed a bit excessive to me, but then it occurred to me that I do use the keyboard quite a lot and perhaps the apple standard keyboard falls into another category and wouldn't show up in the battery usage stats.
So now I'm wondering what other people who use a third party keyboard exclusively are seeing? Are you seeing similar numbers for your keyboard or is Swype just a resource hog?
Initially this seemed a bit excessive to me, but then it occurred to me that I do use the keyboard quite a lot and perhaps the apple standard keyboard falls into another category and wouldn't show up in the battery usage stats.
So now I'm wondering what other people who use a third party keyboard exclusively are seeing? Are you seeing similar numbers for your keyboard or is Swype just a resource hog?