Swype to debut on the Verizon Samsung Omnia II
A little over a year ago, Swype announced at TechCrunch50 2008 that they were going to “change how the world inputs text on screens”. By allowing the user to type words by tracing a path between its letters rather than tapping them out one-by-one, Swype claims to speed up typing on a mobile handset while doing away with accuracy annoyances. Swype is the brainchild of Randy Marsden, developer of the Windows Mobile onscreen keyboard, and Cliff Kushler, co-inventor of the T9 input method. Early next month, Swype will make the jump from the demo stage to a real world product as it debuts on the Verizon Samsung Omnia II. I got the chance to fiddle with Swype on a prototype Omnia …
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