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Re:Cellphones: Blindingly Fast Touchscreen Text Entry System... by auntjemima on Wednesday September 10, 2008 @03:17PM (#300667)
I am new here, don't know what protocol is for duplicate (or in this case highly related) threads...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=300026

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Re:Cellphones: Blindingly Fast Touchscreen Text Entry System... by auntjemima on Wednesday September 10, 2008 @09:02PM (#300929)
Here's the main thread on swype:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=299938

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Re:Cellphones: Blindingly Fast Touchscreen Text Entry System... by sc on Wednesday September 10, 2008 @02:53PM (#300635)
An iPhone app that does this came out around the time the store first launched. Does anybody remember its name?
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Re:Cellphones: Blindingly Fast Touchscreen Text Entry System... by zzzmarcus on Wednesday September 10, 2008 @03:02PM (#300651)
No, but I tried it for a couple hours and found it less than blindly fast. When it gets the word right, it's great, but I found that the extra time it took to correct errors (not my errors, but the software's bad guesses) and to enter proper nouns etc. was high enough to cancel out the benefits.
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