The Google Play Store is full of custom Android keyboards but only few are as well known as SwiftKey, which bills itself as the “world’s smartest predictive keyboard.” This premium keyboard, which costs $3.99 on the Play Store, is certainly a popular choice with Android users. Those who switch to Nokia’s new Android phones will fortunately be getting SwiftKey for free.
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SwiftKey is one of the best keyboard replacements you can get on Android, and now it’s bringing its note-taking talents to iOS with the launch of a new app called SwiftKey Note.
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Android users have a plethora of options available to them if they don’t feel like using the stock keyboard that’s baked into the OS. The SwiftKey keyboard happens to be one of the most popular third-party keyboards for Android, offering features like Flow, which lets users punch in words by simply sliding their fingers across the keyboard. It appears that the popular keyboard might come over to iOS as well, through an app called SwiftKey Note. This according to famed Twitter leaker @evleaks, who has leaked a screenshot of the iOS app.
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Popular Android predictive keyboard SwiftKey is about to pop up in a whole different series of devices, with the text entry system set to appear in the Clarion AX1 Android-based car entertainment system. It’ll allow passengers and distracted drivers to access the web and send messages in usual SwiftKey style.
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A few weeks ago SwiftKey’s “Layouts for Living” upgraded entered beta testing. The upgrade aims to make typing easier for users who have devices with varying screen sizes thus allowing them to type quickly and comfortably on any device and in any context. The new SwiftKey version brings three keyboard layouts, Compact, Full and Thumb. All of them can be undocked, resized and positioned on the screen, where the user wants to position them.
The Compact layout is meant for devices with larger screens, on which it is usually difficult to enter text and hold the device with just one hand. This layout will reduce the width of the keyboard and allow for easier typing with one hand, any hand, as it can be switched from the left or right side of the screen. Thumb layout will appeal to users who want effortless typing on tablets in landscape mode, or even on phablets. The layout splits keyboard in two areas, thus allowing the user to swiftly type using both thumbs. The Full layout is the traditional full-width keyboard that has left and right cursor keys and backspace above the enter key. Apart from the new layouts, SwiftKey 4.3 also comes with five different keyboard sizes, a new “Dark” theme and now it comes as a combined phone and tablet app, so there’s no need to pay separately for both. For existing users, SwiftKey 4.3 is a free upgrade from the Google Play Store or Amazon Appstore.
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SwiftKey is fantastic. It’s got great prediction, great personalization, swipe-based entry options
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After nearly a month of beta testing, SwiftKey Cloud is now ready for the masses. Now in final form, the popular Android keyboard can backup and sync customizations across devices, and it can even learn phrases that are trending across the globe. Thanks to one-click authorization, it’s now easier for SwiftKey to learn phrases from your Facebook and Gmail accounts, and it can also now tap into Yahoo Mail. You’ll also find more responsive Flow predictions in the final version, along with some Emoji fixes. SwiftKey Cloud arrives as part of SwiftKey 4.2, which is available as a free update to current users. The app is also available for a free 30-day trial, but for a limited time, you can also snag the paid version for $2.99 / £1.49, which rings in at half off the regular price. Certainly worth checking out if the stock Android keyboard is no longer cutting it.
Here’s something we’ve all been wanting for some time. SwiftKey Cloud is launching today with a bunch of new functionality including — you guessed it — cloud backup and synchronization across multiple devices. By keeping your keyboard profile and settings online, you no longer have to re-teach Swiftkey your typing habits if you upgrade to a new tablet or lose your phone. Trending phrases is another new feature which analyzes relevant and localized phrases that are trending on social networks and other media and adds them daily to the keyboard’s vocabulary. It supports US / UK English and eleven other languages at launch, with more coming in the future. Finally, SwiftKey Cloud makes its easier than before to personalize your keyboard by connecting it with your GMail, Facebook, Twitter and now Yahoo! mail accounts. We’ve been using the beta for about a day now and everything’s working as advertised. Check out the gallery below, then it the break for the promo video and PR.
Gallery: SwiftKey Cloud
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In a March interview, Google chairman Eric Schmidt, whose company’s smartphone ambitions led to his vacating a board seat at Apple, claimed that he didn’t use either an Android phone or iPhone. Rather, he uses a Blackberry, citing his affinity for its keyboard despite a number of Android models released over the years integrating physical thumb keyboards.
RIM devices had keyboards even before they had email; the feature was part of the BlackBerry’s predecessor, the RIM Inter@ctive Pager. Indeed, tactile feedback was so valued by the company that it tried to integrate it into the touchscreen with the BlackBerry Storm. In reviewing that phone for The New York Times, David Pogue noted, “A BlackBerry without a keyboard is like an iPod without a scroll wheel.” Imagine such a thing.
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