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

[HEXUS]

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

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[circuitmonkey]

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

[crossy]

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?

[Chadders87]

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