say bye bye to tap input and say hello to gesture based text input from SlideIT , Swype , Shapewriter….

After I tried the gesture based data entry from SlideIT myself using my Windows Mobile(WM) phone yesterday. I’m quite convinced that tap typing input in mobile device(or smaller screen device) will soon be phased out. (well, at least for smart phone)

Initially, I really wanted to try Swype but it wasn’t available for every WM phone due to their business model(To my understanding , more incline to B-B instead of B-C). That’s completely alright for me so I try SlideIT which generally provide more or less the same thing.

Anyone who ever use WM will know that the basic input method provided from MS really leave a large room for developer to do something. Text input is generally a painful experience, so I’ll try to write as short as possible in my SMS. However, things change after I install slideIT. 

Simply put, it’s fast, it’s easy to learn, it’s cool. Using some sort of history term, you really can divide the “text input timeline” using BC and AD.

Some demo videos done by others from youtube:

SlideIT:

 

Swype:

 

Shapewriter:

All of these 3 input method are actually protected by some sort of “patent” thing but I’m not going to dig into that since it’s going to be a long debate. If you’re interested you can visit here instead.