If I had to pick just one app that makes or breaks my Android experience, it would have to be Swiftkey, a replacement keyboard I absolutely, positively cannot live without. With its new spacing prediction that has been tweaked, and tweaked and tweaked a little more in beta, the final version is now available from Google Play for half-off. This temporary… Read more
Swype, one of the most popular text input methods on Android has released its latest beta update and it’s packing a lot of new features. Thanks in part to the company’s acquisition by Nuance last year, the latest Swype edition is being dubbed as a “four-in-one” input method paired with Nuance’s XT9 technology. Also included is a new voice-text… Read more
This post stems from a review I did on the new SwiftKey 3 Beta keyboard I did a few weeks earlier. Some DroidDog readers were adamant that I had looked over one MessagEase keyboard, that QWERTY keyboards in general were not designed for use with touchscreen devices, and were therefore a fail. Honestly, using a non-QWERTY keyboard had never even… Read more
I’ll admit it, I used to be a Blackberry user. Blackberry kickstarted my smartphone obsession. When I made the plunge and switched to Android, I sorely missed my physical keyboard. I know I could have gone with a slider phone, that might have worked. But we all know the rippin hardware is usually on the pure brick style phones. I need a phone… Read more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJyYPxd5wKM&feature=player_embedded The ASUS PadFone is one of the weirdest devices I’ve ever seen running Android. It’s a phone. But it has a tablet dock that you put the phone into to turn it into a fully functional 10.1″ tablet. And there is another keyboard dock that you dock the tablet dock into to make it into a… Read more
A couple of weeks ago, I received a Motorola Admiral for Sprint. While I’m typically not a QWERTY keyboard fan –certainly not a candy bar QWERTY phone– I am pleasantly surprised with this device. It has a good form factor and ready for the rugged lifestyle. The Admiral sports a 1.2 GHz processor and has 4 GB of on-board storage (about 1.3 GB… Read more
Surrounded by the DROID RAZR, HTC Rezound, and DROID Bionic releases, the Samsung Stratosphere may have been lost in the shuffle a bit. Heck, if you Google Samsung Stratosphere Verizon Wireless, the official Verizon results are two-thirds of the way down the page. Don’t let that fool you; The Stratosphere is a great mid-tier device AND it is packing… Read more
You probably remember Blind Type. A while ago they showed off a video of their keyboard technology which was said to be so good you could type blind. Soon after the video Blind Type was snatched up by Google, and naturally we all hoped that meant we would see Blind Type in Android. Although Google never mentioned Blind Type when showing off the new… Read more
The Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich keyboard is available for free in the Android market. Not only does it provide updated colors and visuals, the keyboard is actually significantly better than the keyboard in Gingerbread. I was surprised after just a few hours of use at how much more usable this ICS keyboard actually made my phone. Just another reason to be… Read more
The Galaxy Nexus U.S. launch is still up in the air leaving Android fans clamoring for any bit of Ice Cream Sandwich they can find. Thankfully the always resourceful Android community has come through once again and provided the much improved Ice Cream Sandwich keyboard to download. The keyboard will work on any device running Android 2.2 and above;… Read more
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