Iddo Genuth writes "Cliff Kushler, the author of the T9 keyboard scientific know-how for numeric keypads, has full-fledged a new alphanumeric entry mechanization for touch-screen laptops and Smartphone devices. This latest technology, named Swype, works with an on-screen QWERTY keyboard similar to ones found on Windows Mobile and the iPhone. The dissimilitude from the usual method of typing in the letters is that a finger or stylus is used to slide in the first letter, then without lifting the finger, the user continues writing the entire word. Only once the word is completed can the finger be lifted off. gospel to the developers, this leads to a much faster way of 'typing,' or as we might call it soon, 'swiping.'"

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