Android Apps: Swype to the Rescue!

What number of you Android OS customers have gotten a phone and you feel the loss of your 'real' key pad with buttons? My hand is up in the air along with the rest of you. I have huge fingertips and I'm one of those particular folks that's a touch-typer through feel, that means I don't look at the display.
Do you realize precisely how very difficult it can be to type on a flat display when you cannot sense anything?? Thank Goodness for Swype! It still doesn't produce that tactile feel that I got from my older Blackberry, nevertheless it does in fact give me the chance to type like absolutely nothing I've ever used before! For many of you, Swype should come pre-installed with your unit. (I used to have it in my own HTC HD2, which was a WinMo cell.

) For people who are like me and could not get that fortunate, you will have to go through a procedure to get it. Thankfully, the corporation behind Swype (Swype Inc.) makes this straight forward.

At the moment of this writing, they are in open beta, meaning any one can easily enroll and get Swype for their own cell phones.
Simply check out SwypeInc.com and click on the link in the lower-left-hand corner of the screen where it mentions the open beta.

You'll have to have an email address to register (which you may surely have if you have an Android!), after which just simply follow the walk-through.
Swype is such a surprisingly simple medium to work with to get thoughts straight into your phone.
It requires a little getting used to at first (just like T9), but once you do, you'll never go back.

Swype was actually created by exactly the same guy that designed T9 text message entry, which in turn tells me you have an item designed by a person who understands just what he is doing. When you have Swype downloaded, installed, and activated in your Google android, take a few minutes and go through the short training it comes with in order that you get the many tricks and tips. Once you set about using it, it's going to be just like "*BAM* why didn't I do this before?!?!" When you type, your finger never lifts from the screen. You needn't be exact, either, providing you get in the overall area of the letter you are looking for, Swype recognizes what you meant.

It even lets you input words and phrases letter-by-letter so that you can add words for the Swype dictionary.