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SwiftKey speaks at CTIA 2012: VIP Community is vital

Chris Burns, May 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week we’ve caught up with of SwiftKey’s finest, Evan Tapper their community manager and Joe Braidwood their CMO, speaking today about how important their community of beta testers is to their final product. SwiftKey is an Android-based on-screen keyboard, it acting as a complete replacement for the keyboard you’ve got built-in to your own Android device. What we’ve spoken with SwiftKey about today is how this keyboard comes about: not just through a group of developers sitting behind desks, but through a community of users like you working with their developer team to bring about the best experience they can muster.

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SwiftKey 3 Beta gets UI upgrade

Chris Burns, May 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

The custom keyboard interface known as SwiftKey has received a brand new upgrade for all you Beta users out there, complete with user interface changes and bug fixes. We've got our hands on this build for both smartphone and tablet and are having a look at the several changes that have been made here on the 3rd of May (it is indeed called the 3rd of May update) and are finding it to be pleasing on the whole without a doubt. Have a peek at what's next for this predictive beast here and now. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: April 5, 2012

Chris Burns, Apr 5th 2012 Discuss [0]

Today is a day to talk about reviews - we've had quite a few of them in the past few days, so why not let's have a peek at them? We've had a look at two of the most fantastic Android smartphones ever to be released in Google's mobile OS's short history: the HTC One X with NVIDIA's Tegra 3 and the HTC One S with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 4S - their power is immense! Next we've got a review of one of the greatest time-spenders in the mobile app world: TED Talks for iPad and iPhone! We took a look at AT&T's new hero for Windows Phone: Nokia Lumia 900 complete with the sweetest updates! Then of course the news of the week is the greatest photo sharing app of all time, our Instagram for Android review breaking hearts and mending fences! Read The Full Story

SwiftKey 3 Beta and where you can get it

Chris Burns, Apr 4th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week the folks at the digital keyboard app group SwiftKey are releasing their third big iteration, SwiftKey 3, to the Android masses absolutely free. Of course you'll have to be part of their VIP community, and this release is only a Beta, and they'll want you to give them feedback so they can make a better product for the future. But all that out of the way, SwiftKey's method of pre-releasing a beta product for testing has been in place with them now for many moons - and it appears to be working! Read The Full Story

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SwiftKey 3 Beta Hands-on

Chris Burns, Apr 4th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week the folks at SwiftKey are releasing their newest customizable learning digital keyboard replacement app for Android, SwiftKey 3, and we’re taking a look at it here in Beta form. SwiftKey has for many moons been a king of 3rd-party keyboard creation for the Android platform, and true to their promise for each new release, this Beta version has been released for free to the entire SwiftKey VIP user community – 30,000 strong! This version has several big additions from the last full release including new UI, themes, and Smart Space – let’s have a look!

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Tablets: an Android 2011 Retrospective

Chris Burns, Jan 2nd 2012 Discuss [18]

When the year 2011 is looked back upon by the Google historians, they’ll mark it as the first time they officially made an effort to bring the Android platform to devices with displays larger than handheld smartphones – what we saw, as a result, was everything from the XOOM to the ASUS Transformer Prime. The folks at Google created a version of their mobile operating system Android titled Honeycomb and numbered version 3.0. This operating system began its life in the wild on the Motorola XOOM, a 10.1-inch tablet that by the end of the year would be replaced by the XYBOARD, a tablet which physically in weight and thickness to the iPad 2 – the dominant force in the tablet space throughout the vast majority of this past year.

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Ten Android apps for your new smartphone or tablet: Christmas 2011

Chris Burns, Dec 25th 2011 Discuss [8]

So it’s Christmas day (or something similar here at the tail end of 2011) and you’ve just received a fine Android tablet or smartphone to get you started on your way to smart device heaven: what do you do? You first take a look at the apps you’ve already got, realize there’s not just one whole heck of a lot of fun stuff there, then head to the Android Market. Your device likely has a little white bag icon with an Android head on it in green titled “Market” – this is where you want to go to get the goods. In this post you’ll find a find handfull of apps I suggest to you to pick up immediately.

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SwiftKey Android keyboard developers grab $2.4m investment boost

Chris Burns, Dec 7th 2011 Discuss [1]

This week the the group TouchType Ltd, best known for their keyboard application by the name of SwiftKey - as found on the Android Market this week on sale for 10 cents, mind you - have attained $2.4 million USD (£1.5m) in Series A financing to "accelerate consumer and OEM adoption." This investment is sure to bring the keyboard app developers a whole new round of investments to bring the typing solution to the forefront of the Android mobile operating system world. The investment has been lead by Octopus Investments and will ultimately improve one of the world's most popular Android apps to a whole new level of excellent. Read The Full Story

Android Market 10 Billion Promo sees premium app price-slash

Chris Davies, Dec 6th 2011 Discuss [5]

Google has kicked off a new Android Market promotion to celebrate 10 billion downloads, offering ten days of offers on premium software. The 10 Billion Promo sees ten apps being released each day at just $0.10 in the US (or £0.10 in the UK, as per the screenshot below), with first day titles including SwiftKey X, SoundHound and SketchBook Mobile. Read The Full Story

SwiftKey X update adds multitouch for faster fingers

Chris Davies, Nov 18th 2011 Discuss [1]

SwiftKey X and SwiftKey Tablet X has been updated, with the predictive Android keyboard alternative now taking advantage of multitouch for faster typing. Meanwhile, there's new language and keyboard layout support - up to 35 languages in total now - including the ability to quickly change between up to three different layouts by sliding the spacebar. Read The Full Story

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SwiftKey X 2.1 Keyboard for Android Hands-on [Video]

Chris Burns, Sep 30th 2011 Discuss [3]

It’s time for an update to one of the most powerful third-party keyboards available for Android today, SwiftKey X. This version is 2.1 and includes an upgrade to both the smartphone version and the tablet version of the app. In addition to a slew of performance and memory usage improvements, there’s been layout and interface usability improvements, several language additions, and options to slide or tap rather than a single option to tap. Best of all, there’s a new set of insights and statistics that you can read as you improve your accuracy in your everyday typing.

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Amazon Free App of the Day isn’t necessarily good for the developer

Shane McGlaun, Aug 3rd 2011 Discuss [2]

I think most of us are the same when it comes to apps. We will pay for some of them if they look really cool, but mostly we want free apps. This is what Android users tend to keep an eye on the Amazon Free App of the Day being offered daily since the apps are free for the single day only. The deal seems like good exposure, but one developer has found that being selected for the featured promotion wasn't a good thing at all. Read The Full Story