News - Dryft, for fast typing on tablets, revealed by Swype co-founder

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The soft-keys position themselves on screen to suit your hand placement. (video)

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Looks good, I've just signed up for their beta

Hmm, that's a clever piece of lateral thinking - so I really hope that they do well with this. Although the timing is darned typical - I only bought SwiftKey for my main tablet yesterday (remember that unlike Swype - now owned by Nuance - SwiftKey is a UK-based product!)

Only downside I can see is that this is going to work best when the tablet is lying flat - although I'm tempted to sign up for the beta and give it a spin. If it DOES live up to the presentation then Google and Microsoft should seriously think about licensing this for their respective tablet OS's.

And as to Apple - well they'll either "get with the program" or do their slant on it and claim they invented the whole genre.
EDIT: just checked the beta-sign-up and they appear to be looking for iOS users too? Presumably for jailbroken phones, or is there some other way to install 3rd party keyboards now?

Just signed up too... This will make typing on the Samsung Note II a bit easier as it's too big to swype or "thumb", and too small for proper touch typing.

Beta registration: www.dryft.com/beta