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Swype, lovin it..

Does this beta app expire or is swype for life and not just for xmas? Sorry for that.... Only thing I am missing is the smiley's from the stock keyboard, but this is a rapid input method. A good quality car wax helps screen swiping. Anybody dislike it?
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swpe is way better than the stock keyboard from the x10
sadly the only prob I see is the fact of not being able to select easier a letter to delete it

I love swype but it is not as great on the X10's rudimentary touchscreen.
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Hi.. Alan.. Slide your finger from the swype key to the sym key.. Navigation keys.. Brilliant!
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What?
cytokine said:
I love swype but it is not as great on the X10's rudimentary touchscreen.
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Well the clearpad 2000 (?) just isn't very good. It often loses track of your finger which results in far more errors than you would otherwise have on a more potent digitizer.
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It's not a clearpad - it's a Cypress panel.

How do you use the microphone icon in Swype? Should I be able to press it then just speak?

http://forum.swype.com/showthread.php?2-Voice-input-button&highlight=microphone
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Keyboard Help - Going Crazy

I know there are many keyboard topics, but I just can't find a one that works well on my Play.
-Smart Keyboard (Trial)
*Best keyboard for my needs, but it seriously slows the phone down after a day or two. As soon as I uninstall, everything starts working perfectly again.
-Stock Xperia Play
*Terrible. Doesn't remember contractions and doesn't have the mic button.
-Keyboard from Android 2.3 (free)
*Okay, but has a stupid emoticons symbol where the 'Enter' button should be during sms composition. I dislike the way it handles punctuation after typing out words.
I'm honestly starting to hate this phone because it's such a pain to enter data, no matter what I try. Never had issues on my old iPhone.
What is everyone using? And no, I don't want to use swype.
Thanks!

The_Newtype said:
-Keyboard from Android 2.3 (free)
*Okay, but has a stupid emoticons symbol where the 'Enter' button should be during sms composition. I dislike the way it handles punctuation after typing out words.
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I use this one. Never noticed before about the emoticons button instead of enter until you mentioned it.
Doesnt bother me though. I dont see a reason to use enter for sms anyway. If you are going to write a novel, make an email

Swype its free on their site
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Better keyboard 8 is pretty good. Best for predictions and has an unfussy interface.
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replicant101 said:
Swype its free on their site
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Not a fan of moving my finger around the screen like that.
dsswoosh said:
I use this one. Never noticed before about the emoticons button instead of enter until you mentioned it.
Doesnt bother me though. I dont see a reason to use enter for sms anyway. If you are going to write a novel, make an email
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Haha, yeah...I just have a bad habit of writing multiple thoughts in texts messages.
nelly_boy said:
Better keyboard 8 is pretty good. Best for predictions and has an unfussy interface.
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Thanks for the suggestion..I'll try this one next.

The_Newtype said:
Not a fan of moving my finger around the screen like that.
Haha, yeah...I just have a bad habit of writing multiple thoughts in texts messages.
Thanks for the suggestion..I'll try this one next.
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Go to gimpsta.com use the kitchen to create yourself a htc_ime mod, best keboard imo
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Swype ftw
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Check out the 8pen
http://www.the8pen.com/

Definitely Swype. So much faster than any other method of text input on phones.

SwiftKey x beta ftw

nelly_boy said:
Better keyboard 8 is pretty good. Best for predictions and has an unfussy interface.
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Another vote for Better Keyboard 8

The_Newtype said:
Not a fan of moving my finger around the screen like that.
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Did you know that you dont have to swype your finger to type? You can also just type normally without having to change anything. Even normal typing is much better using swype than the stock keyboard. First few days swype pissed me off but now i swear by it

aitmanga said:
Another vote for Better Keyboard 8
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hello bro, any new for flash r800a mexico?? saludos...

Slide it keyboard works great too
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Multi touch for android rom?

Part of the reason for me to root was multi touch. Is there a rom on that for play?
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The play has a 4-point multitouch screen and a 2-point touchpad. What do you mean that you rooted your phone for multi touch?

Logseman said:
The play has a 4-point multitouch screen and a 2-point touchpad. What do you mean that you rooted your phone for multi touch?
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lol ..............

AndroHero said:
lol ..............
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yeah... why are you multi touching an already enabled multi-touch phone...

subcu1ture said:
yeah... why are you multi touching an already enabled multi-touch phone...
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I'm not lol

By multi touch I mean like on iPhone. Where you can use 2 fingers at the same time to type. If you use 2 thumbs on your plays keyboard your only clicking 1 and its messy
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Cat_On_Droid said:
By multi touch I mean like on iPhone. Where you can use 2 fingers at the same time to type. If you use 2 thumbs on your plays keyboard your only clicking 1 and its messy
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and why would you wanna do that?

Actually I know what he means (after he explained).
On the iphone it types in the order you PRESS the letters.
On the xplay it types in the order you LIFT your fingers.
So if you press H E but lift the E finger before, it'll appear EH.
Hope that clears it up a little bit, I thought it was just me and I just tried to lift my fingers before pressing again, but checking on an iphone just now I realized it's easier over there. Perhaps it was just the heat of the moment haha.

Don't notice it that much because I use Swype.

subcu1ture said:
Don't notice it that much because I use Swype.
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same here, works like a charm

Well then it looks like he needs a keyboard that supports multitouch. The xperia play supports multitouch already I personally use Swype keyboard but I don't use the slide part and not the tapping so I don't know if it works for you. Try out some android keyboards and see what you like.
But as said above the Xperia play can take up to 4 finger at a time and a developer is planning on expanding it up to 10.
Try this application it proves that the Xperia play supports 4 fingers.
Multi Touch Tester

This is not ios where you are locked to one single keyboard my friend
There is a thing called android market where you can download apps from
There are tons of keyboards available one or the other will have what you are looking for
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I currently use SwiftKEY X beta ,it was great but its not MultiTouch like ip4 =/ its shame cuz i like tapping fast with auto correction with vibration on-screen.
Oh and i cant seem to find SWYPE @[email protected] ...

Cat_On_Droid said:
I currently use SwiftKEY X beta ,it was great but its not MultiTouch like ip4 =/ its shame cuz i like tapping fast with auto correction with vibration on-screen.
Oh and i cant seem to find SWYPE @[email protected] ...
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Swype is not on the market. Its here. Sign up and they will send you the download link. Takes a while to get used to but once you do it is way faster than normal typing.

Swype is far superior to a regular keyboard. One of the many reasons I prefer android to ios or blackberry.
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I just tested. Smart Keyboard Pro, that I use, has that feature. And even has iPhone skin
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Blagus said:
I just tested. Smart Keyboard Pro, that I use, has that feature. And even has iPhone skin
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Will try, ty
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I installed Swype. I had it on my x10 mini pro but I liked more to type with the physical keyboard.
Swype writes in the order you press (just like the iphone), and not in the order you lift (stock keyboard for us). It's weird because it's obvious that first key pressed should be written, stock keyboard is crazy lol

netorino said:
I installed Swype. I had it on my x10 mini pro but I liked more to type with the physical keyboard.
Swype writes in the order you press (just like the iphone), and not in the order you lift (stock keyboard for us). It's weird because it's obvious that first key pressed should be written, stock keyboard is crazy lol
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Mate, you're meant to swype with swype, not type! Lol
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Oh I know but sometimes you need to type out the words if you know they wont be in the dictionary like codes, emails, passwords, etc.
The only thing I don't like is deleting words, it's very slow and if I press backspace a lot it goes slow and if I hit it too many times it will delete more than I wanted.

Keyboard and typing problem

I was having a problem with my tablet that I thought a update might sort so I rooted it and tried a few different roms but am still getting the same problem when am typing something. You know when you make a mistake and you can touch the area you want to fix by either deleting or changing a letter well when i do that the the line wont stay on that spot it just shoots of somewhere else every time

I have the same problem!!!!!

M_Shaaban said:
I have the same problem!!!!!
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Its doing my head in now scared to make a mistake as it takes about 5 minutes to fix it

Same here, it's really annoying. I have to admit it's somehow better after the latest update but not completely fixed!
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That's why keyboard with arrow keys is useful.

Which keyboard as the arrows I've downloaded a few but never found one like that

thumb keyboard has arrows keys.

Swiftkey x tablet
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Hacker Keyboard (free)
this keyboard layout is same as ur laptop keyboard...

norpan111 said:
Swiftkey x tablet
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swiftkey x tablet does not have arrow keys as far as i know.

Vlad_z said:
swiftkey x tablet does not have arrow keys as far as i know.
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just dig in settings it should be there
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There
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that link didnt work for me

I use Hackers keyboard,for me the best.

+1 for hacker keyboard .... love the arrows and numbers showing
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Same issue
freddy0000 said:
Its doing my head in now scared to make a mistake as it takes about 5 minutes to fix it
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Indeed, sometimes becomes useless...pity.

The dock

I've got one, have had it for about two weeks and it's amazing. Completely redefines this thing. Any tips on usage? Any way to use the keyboard for more games? What about right clicking on Splashtop? And lastly, any way we can manage an iPod with this beast?
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if you press the A key it types "a" and if you hold it you get "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..."
Don't mind me I'm just in a trolling mood

pendragon11 said:
I've got one, have had it for about two weeks and it's amazing. Completely redefines this thing. Any tips on usage? Any way to use the keyboard for more games? What about right clicking on Splashtop? And lastly, any way we can manage an iPod with this beast?
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Where did you get the dock seperatly?

pendragon11 said:
I've got one, have had it for about two weeks and it's amazing. Completely redefines this thing. Any tips on usage? Any way to use the keyboard for more games? What about right clicking on Splashtop? And lastly, any way we can manage an iPod with this beast?
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You can cheat in gta III with the dock.
Send from my lovely Sensation XL, from a little town in france with a very very slow internet connection.

I doubt you could manage an iPod but a normal mp3 player where you dump files in a folder should be easy to do. That said its still much easier with windows explorer.
Nice tip though, a few windows shortcuts work with the keyboard, so try using those, I know ctrl c, ctrl x and ctrl v all work, you can also use ctrl plus the arrow keys to skip words at a time with the cursor
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jebise101 said:
if you press the A key it types "a" and if you hold it you get "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..."
Don't mind me I'm just in a trolling mood
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I just tested and that also works for the "b" the "k" and the "c" keys, too! Haven't had time to test all the others but will come back to report my findings when I do.