By Killian Bell |
When Google unveiled Android 4.2 on Monday, it demonstrated an awesome new keyboard that allows you to swipe across its keys to type. Most of you have probably used third-party keyboards with this functionality — such as Swype — but it’s part of the operating…
By Mark Hearn |
Keeping up with the growing trend of virtual voice assistants for mobile devices, such as Siri and S-Voice, Nuance on Monday released an SDK for Android and iOS that can add voice control to third-party customer service applications. The voice assistant, dubbed “Nina,” doesn’t only…
By Mark Hearn |
One of our favorite things about Android is, if you don’t like something, you can change it. This concept holds especially true in regards to keyboards. Nuance’s Swype has rolled out its latest beta build of its highly popular text input system. Backed by features…
By Killian Bell |
Android users who are participating in the Swype beta program can now enjoy a new update from Nuance that adds a number of “hotly requested features,” including support for the latest Ice Cream Sandwich operating system and Dragon Go! integration. The company announced the update…
By Brandon Russell |
There are cheap tablets, and then there are really cheap tablets. The ZTE Optik proudly falls into the latter category. At just $99 with a two-year contract, the Android 3.2 equipped device is being made available through Sprint beginning February 5. Internally, the Optik will…
By Sean P. Aune |
Apparently there’s a lot of money to be made from text input technologies. Come up with a popular keyboard interface and you too might walk away with a cool $102.5 million in cash. It was announced this morning that Nuance, a company known for various…
By Killian Bell |
If you’re looking for your first Android smartphone and you don’t want to pay a premium price for a stack of fancy features, then the new myTouch and myTouch Q from T-Mobile may be right up your street. These two devices are set to join the…
By Adriana Lee |
Swype is arguably one of the best smartphone keyboards available to date, but only some Android users get to experience the fast swiping glory of inputting text with it. And now, a new userbase joins the ranks. When the Nexus S 4G joined Sprint‘s lineup,…
By Adriana Lee |
iOS users, are you jealous over how some Android users get to enjoy Swype? The keyboard-swiping text entry method seems to have a divided response — some people adore it, and miss it like crazy when they move to an iPhone, while others just can’t…
By Noah Kravitz |
A premature listing and an official correction later, it looks like we’ve got the skinny on Toshiba’s first dual-core Honeycomb tablet. Thrive, a tablet built around a 10.1-inch display, NVIDIA Tegra 2 innards, and the Android 3.1 platform, will go up for pre-order at BestBuy…
By Travis Harvey |
A walking advertisement for Swype, you’ve likely heard that Melissa Thompson broke the world record for the fastest text message and is awaiting approval for the new Guinness World Record. Originally set by Franklin Page, he texted, “the razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and…
By Travis Harvey |
Attention all you Android power users! Many of you may still be lacking a multitouch keyboard that’s seriously hampering the speed of your text input. For a limited time, Swype is offering Android users the ability to test out their latest build of the super…
