Swype, one of the fastest keyboards for Android has finally dropped its BETA label. Previously Swype is a free Beta keyboard which is offered as a direct apk file download.

With the keyboard now being official, it comes with a price of US$0.99 on Google Play. The current price is apparently for a limited time only, so Swype users are urged to download it now before they start to hike up the price.

To download Swype, head over to Google Play. If you’re new to Swype, you can download the trial version over here.

Head after the break for the intro video.

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Swype Keyword is a popular custom keyboard on Android that lets you type faster than normal QWERTY keyboard tapping. However Android 4.0 users had been left out from the fun as it could only support devices with Android 2.3/3.0.

Today Galaxy Nexus and upgraded Nexus S users can rejoice as Swype has finally released its latest version with ICS support.

Head over to Swype Beta to download.

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Swype, the fast custom keyboard for Androids now has another update. Apart from your typical fast predictive input from a single motion on a screen, Swype now has several new gesture based features.

Now you can perform advanced actions such as copy, paste, cut and select all on Swype. Just Swype from the Swype Icon to either C (Copy), V (Paste) or X (Cut). To Select all, just swype from Swype Icon to A. There are other shortcuts as well, like Swyping from the icon to TW for Twitter or to GM for Google Maps.

For the majority that uses custom words or uncommon short forms, Swype now has a Personal Dictionary section where you can input and remove new words easily. This is pretty useful especially when getting rid of unwanted added new words.

To download, head to Swype Beta page here. Note: The new beta won’t work with devices that already have Swype pre-installed.

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UPDATE: It is now available for download at Swype. We installed ours this afternoon.

Our favourite keyboard Swype, is a must download for every Android device that we use. It offers typing with just a single stroke movement across the keyboard with a single finger, making it the fastest way to type long text and sms while on the go.

Although it works great on small handheld smart phones, we can’t say the same for tablet usage. We had tried Swype or equivalent style of inputs on the Galaxy Tab, HTC Flyer and ASUS Eee Pad Transformer, and we felt the usability of it gets less practical due to its larger screen and it gets worse when you’re on landscape mode. We have always wondered, what’s the point of having full width swyping keyboard for tablets when they can just maintain a small one for shorter distance of swyping. Now it seems that Swype has finally solved that with the upcoming Swype 3.0 which is slated to kick start its Beta anytime soon.

On Swype 3.0, they have optimised their keyboard for Android 3.X Honeycomb tablets, which offers both full width and a smaller sized keyboard which would go easy on the fingers. To add more flexibility, the mini-sized swype keyboard is movable to either left, centre or right side of the screen. For the full QWERTY keyboard typist, there’s also a predictive tap feature which automatically detects your typing pattern and corrects them immediately.

Right now the Beta download page is not available but you can check this link later of the day.

Check out the demo video after the jump.

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Swype, our favourite keyboard had earlier broken the world record for fastest texting on a phone. This time they had broken another speed record for hands-free typing.

Hank Torres who is partially paralysed from the shoulder down had set a new record using Swype assisted with a head tracking device for his attempt. Even with such challenging condition, he managed to complete the following text just slightly over 83 seconds.
“The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.”

This is an amazing feat and certainly benefit computer users with physical disabilities. Check out the video of the world record attempt after the jump.

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Swype our favourite speed typing keyboard for android has just released another new update. This time around they re-open beta registration for first time users. Earlier on it was a time-limited beta which early adopters are able to sign up to receive Swype beta updates. New registrations were no longer accepted until now.

In this new update, they have added a host of new features such as support for English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, French and an early but unstable preview release of Chinese Pinyin. Other neat features include double-tap-to-edit, cursor restore, voice to text and support for HVGA, WVGA and WVGA854. Unfortunately QVGA displays like the HTC Wildfire is still not supported.

To sign up, head to Swype Beta page here. Note that this is not applicable for phones that comes with Swype pre-installed, like the Samsung Galaxy S.

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Swype is now available for Symbian^3 devices like the Nokia N8 and Nokia C7.

For those who don’t know what Swype is, it’s the fastest way to type on mobile devices. It is such a big hit among Android users and devices such as Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab already have Swype pre-installed. Earlier on, Swype also made an appearance for S60 5th Edition for Touch via Nokia beta labs.

Nokia N8 and C7 users can get Swype from the OVI store or download directly here.

The limitation now however is that it only works in landscape mode.

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Swype beta for Android is expirying soon. If you didn’t get Swype pre-installed on your device you would need to update to continue using it. According to Android Central,
there are a couple of bug fixes and enhancements for this Swype update.

Among the changes are support for German and Portuguese language, added disable auto-space gesture by swyping from spacebar to backspace, quick language change, improved word prediction and gestures.

This is strictly for existing Swype Beta users as they are not accepting new sign ups currently. You must also uninstall both Swype and SwypeInstaller before proceeding. Those with Swype pre-installed like the Samsung Galaxy S are advised not to download.

Download Swype Installer here via your Android browser. For detail step by step installation, click here.

For those who didn’t know, Swype is also available for Nokia touch screen phones too.

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Nokia users rejoice! Our favourite Swype input software is now available for Nokia Symbian S60 devices. Swype together with Nokia had worked closely together to integrate this quick input keyboard on S60 5th edition devices.

If you have a touch screen Nokia S60 5th edition device such as Nokia 5800, 5230, X6, N97 and N97 mini, you can download the beta here.

For those who didn’t know about Swype, it is currently the fastest way to text on a mobile device certified by Guiness book of records. Even most recently, that record was smashed again.

Check out the swype demo video by Nokia Beta Labs after the jump.

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The dude’s name is Brian Sweet and he writes for Gumball Tech and he claims that he claims to have beaten the world text-messaging record using nothing more than the onscreen keyboard of his iPhone 4.

Previously a woman form the UK typed (or more accurately swiped) out the phrase “the razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human,” in a whisker under 26 seconds using Swype installed in a Samsung Galaxy S. But in a video uploaded on YouTube Sweet managed the same phrase under 22 seconds, a full 4 seconds quicker than the world record.

Super thumbs Sweet was that although the record is not official, it’s definitely better than what that woman recently achieved.

So this begs the question, can people actually type faster using a standard onscreen keyboard? Although it seems that this is possible, you have to be one super texter to pull the feat.

Check out the video after the jump and get ready to be amazed, it’s all a blur of thumbs to us.

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