Nokia Beta Labs has released another useful application called Swype Pen Input for Symbian S60 5th edition based touch screen mobiles. Swype application provides a faster and easier way to input text on your mobile. With one continuous finger or stylus motion across the screen keyboard, the application enables users to input words faster and easier than other data input methods—at over 40 words per minute. There is a patented technology of Nokia behind this application.
Swype application is currently under development. The Beta release for Symbian includes support for English US, Spanish, Canadian French, and Brazilian Portuguese languages. The exciting features of this application are:
Layout - Standard QWERTY keyboard layout makes Swype application very easy to learn.
Stylus or finger Usage – Swype's amazing input path analyzer allows you to go fast and sloppy. Just make a reasonable effort to trace through the word and Swype will do the rest for you.
Double Tap Editing – Make a mistake? Double tap on any word to bring up a list of other possible matches. sounds great?
Auto-Spacing, Auto-Capitalization and Auto Spelling Correction.
Automatic Help – Swype detects when you may be having trouble or might benefit from a particular feature and then prompts you with helpful tips and instructions.
Provides instant access to Symbols, Numbers and Editing functions.
65,000-word Learning Dictionary – Most of the words you will type are already in the Swype dictionary. If it isn't there, just tap it out once followed by a space and Swype will remember it for future use. It means you can add the words to Swype dictionary.