In September last year we first mentioned Swype, a system that was created by the inventor of T9 predictive text input. The Swype system allows you to glide your finger around a virtual keyboard moving quickly from letter to letter while it calculates what word you are wanting to input.
After about 14 months of waiting we hear today that the Samsung Omnia 2 on the Verizon network will be the first phone to use the Swype input system.
The Swype input system appears to work very well on the comparison. The video below shows text on an iPhone compare to Swype on another phone with the user inputting text with Swype being the clear winner in terms of speed. Of course it’s not a result for every iPhone user vs Swype user as it will all depend on the person entering the text, but at least it offers another option for text entry on a virtual keyboard hopefully that some people will like. [Read more…]
If you are looking for a media PC at a decent price then perhaps this SATA HDD HDMI TV Player might work for you. The device is small measuring just 11cm x 4.4cm x 3.4cm and weighs just 530g. It accepts any 2.5″ or 3.5″ drive connected to it and is capable of pushing out audio at 5.1 surround as well as video at up to 1080i.
Nokia have announced the Nokia 6700 slide phone. The phone is a 3G slider phone that design wise, comes in a number of colours which includes pink, red, petrol blue, aluminium, lime and purple. The phone is also slimline.
If you were a fan of Driver on the original Playstation then the great game is on it’s way to the iPhone.
Atari have updated their website recently to include a bunch of old classic games from the 70’s and 80’s. The games are all playable from your internet browser.
The HTC HD2 was recently launched on to the Vodafone network in the UK costing nothing on a £35/month plan and above. O2 have now started selling the HD2 and offering it for free, but for £45 on their network. The contract might be £10/month more expensive, but the more expensive contract only ties you down to 18 months rather than the 24 months of the Vodafone contract.
The Camangi WebStation is another Android OS based device in the form of a tablet. The WebStation will be launched next month for a price of $399. Camangi do mention on their site that there is an early bird price for the first 100 buyers of the Android Tablet although it’s not clear if $399 is the early bird price or full price.
If you have a bad memory and struggle to remember exactly where you parked your car then this GPS Tracker keychain will help you out. The small device is called ECCO and has a GPS chip built in. The tracker allows you to push a button to memorise exactly where you parked your car. When you are ready to return you simply push a button and it points you in the right direction.
Google [GOOG] have added a new feature to Youtube that automatically ads captions to videos by using speech to text technology.
Google [GOOG] have announced that Google Maps Navigation is now available in the US for those running Android 1.6 on their phone. The maps software is compatible with most (if not all) 1.6 based devices including the older T-Mobile G1.
A few weeks ago XDA Developers folk managed to get 
