Swype – How to Type Faster on a Mobile Phone

Swype – Type fast on your Touch-Sensitive Smart Phone,

Most of the mobile devices these days seem to go for a touch-type screen rather than the old physical button layout and other functional keys. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. Anyhow when it comes to typing on a phone few advantage of using a “virtual” key-pad are the ability to customize, fix bugs, change button size, arrangements etc. But one of the most important of all the advantages is the flexibility it gives the mobile phone designers and engineer to introduce new and efficient ways to make the typing faster.

So is it (Swype) any better?

Well, the traditional method of touch-typing on a phone is done simply by finger contacts on the display screen. So is with the new method. But the only difference is that, when typing rather than move your fingers all over from that button to this, Swype lets you simply “drag” the keys and build words. If you’re a touch typist then you’re aware of the fact that our fingers feel really uncomfortable jumping from this to that, it’s human nature, I think. But simple dragging (without much of a finger raise) can make you feels at ease almost immediately. But let me remind you than to get used to this method takes a bit of a time, but according to results (there are still some good and bad attributes) it performs better than the traditional method (over 40 WPM – according to the company, anyway). 

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The Swype software is not available for all platforms currently and only comes only with some latest smart phones only. But if it gets popular and some attention from the community then it “could” be available for almost all mobile platforms such Samsung, Nokia, iPhone, etc(since its a software this can easily be achieved).

Currently it comes with certain models and only seems to support Android OS and if you’re a Droid X fan then you already have it (if not simply visit the site below and get it). But as said earlier things can change dramatically in the future. For example more and more Facebook and Twitter apps are (demanded by users) embedded in latest phones and people need ways to type faster on phones, so lets see what the Swype has to offer to us in the future.

To know more about the technology and availability please visit this site -> Swype – Touchtype

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Dexim pimps up your bland, ordinary USB cable

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Apparently, this cable will work with a slew of smartphones and gadgets which hail from the houses of HTC, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Blackberry, Nokia and Motorola. While Apple was not listed, to enjoy a USB cable that is lighted up like a Christmas tree will require a similarly priced lighted USB cable. Definitely a sight to behold, especially if you love computing in that dark, dark room of yours. Do prepare around $ 25.50 for Dexim’s creation if you are interested.

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The upcoming smartphone looks a lot like the highly anticipated Sony Xperia S flagship, which got announced at CES this year….

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wi fi cufflinks James Bond Never Wore Wi Fi Enabled Cufflinks, But You CanJames Bond is a badass because he’s always prepared for whatever situation arises. The guy’s had gadgets for everything, from exploding keychains to to a stun-gun cigarette, along with just about anything you can imagine. That is, unless you imagine USB cufflinks that double as a Wi-Fi hotspot dongle in a pinch. Unlike most of James Bonds’ gadgets, Wi-Fi cufflinks actually exist.

Kudos to our friends at Engadget for turning us on to these things. Playing the part of Q, Brookstone has available polished silver oval Wi-Fi and 2GB USB combination cufflinks that allow you keep data on your person and remedy a bad router in a pinch. Just plug one of your cufflinks into a PC wired directly to the modem and you have an instant high-speed hotspot to work with.

Unfortunately, these things run $ 250, which borders on the ridiculous, especially since they don’t triple as an explosive device. Ah well, file this one under ‘cool, but not worth price.’

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Of course, since not everyone has a job that has stable, 9-to-5 working hours, walking the dog might end up as an activity that has to be done when dusk falls, or even late at night. Doing so can not only be dangerous for your dog, but for you as well, since you might actually end up being mugged or worse (touch wood here!), especially when you do not carry any light source with you. Hence, the $ 39.95 Illuminating Pet Leash that says it all – the flashlight unit is mounted to the top of the leash handle, sporting 9 powerful LED. A built in storage compartment on the handle will stash away a waste bag, and the entire device is powered by a trio of AAA batteries. This is meant for small and medium sized breeds only, as any pooch heavier than 36 lbs. might just break the leash without much pulling effort.

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Nokia X6 Phone – Review

“While many other mobile phone manufactures trying to achieve more “slimness” in their models Nokia on the other hand introduce devices like the Nokia X6 for example that are a bit thick. It may not look that “sexy” on the out side but as many experts pointed out many times in practical use (such as typing) the thickness can come in handy. One of the main aspects of this phone is the inbuilt memory capacity of 16GB, but when the X6 was first introduced it didn’t include such monstrous storage data capacity.

Not just the memory support there are few other major improvements that come with this latest phone. The screen color depth of 16Million for example. Now one may think that many other manufactures also embed such high quality color-depths. Yes but let’s take Blackberry for example, most of their version of smart-phones do not come with 16M-colors. Anyway back to the specifications again,

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The screen consists of a 3.2″ area with a 640×360 nHD resolution in pixels. As said earlier the devices is a bit thick which is set at .54 inches (L – 4.37, W – 2). The display is a 16:9 (wide)-screen coupled with the popular accelerometer (rotate the phone the display automatically rotates – there are some people who might not know that ok – no disrespect intended).                                  

There is no Key-pad (physical), since its a touch-screen Nokia has decided to go for a touch-keypad. The buttons and the overall key ares does a good job when it comes to typing. But it would have been nice if the buttons were a bit bigger. There are numerous finger-tip functions that are available with the Nokia X6 such as screen-zooming (finger double tap) etc. If they can give the end users typing utilities such as the Swype like with the Samsung Captivate – SGH-i897 the overall speed could be much higher. Let’s hope it’ll available in the future.

Thanks to fast internet access through high speed 3G connections the web experience is very satisfying. The browser loads page pretty quickly and some smooth video (Youtube etc) playback too. But there were some drawbacks (such as browser crashes) while accessing heavy detailed web pages including flash files. Hopefully this could be due to software errors and let’s hope they’ll provide updates for them. By default there are WCDMA, HSDPA (max download speed 3.6 Mbps) and for connectivity Bluetooth 2.0 and USB for PC to phone sync is available. With the help of the Nokia PC suite the Nokia X6 can easily be used as a modem for your laptops or PCs. WiFi is also included.

When it comes to producing quality pictures the 5MPX camera is one of the best. The highest image resolutions is 2592 x 1944. The digital zooming is set at 4x and other functions include auto-focus, LED flash (2), self time and scene modes are just to name a few. The video capturing is also very impressive. Even though comparing with other latest phones out there it may not the best. But certainly the 640×480 at 30 fps should be more than enough for the most of us.
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When it comes to the multimedia support Nokia has always been one of the best. While Apple is forcefully trying to hold their users to “their” formats the X6 supports wide variety of formats such as MPEG4-AVC playback 30 fps QVGA, WMV9 playback 30 fps QVGA, MPEG4-SP playback 30 fps nHD. And audio codecs include mp3, SPMidi, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA. The overall multimedia experience was really good. Oh there is also a FM stereo radio available too.

The battery (according to the manufacture) supports up to 17 days for standby. And the talk time is more than 11 hours (using GSM) and it’s reduced to 6 when using WCDMA.

So all in all this is a great phone from the famous manufacture, if they can send some updated web-browser and fix few other software errors the Nokia X6 (even the price is reasonable) could be a handy choice also concerning the cell phones’ battery life.

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