[princem131]

I will definitely download and try. This looks really interesting its good to see people being innovative and trying new things if nothing else. Thanks for the link!

Update:
Its weird. I'm trying... I WAS trying to type this and text message with it but got so frustrated that I had to switch back mid way through.

I want to give it a chance because I remember how weird T9 was when I first started using it and then how much ridiculously faster and easier it made my texting experience. But I really do not like it so far.

There needs to be an option to use it for portrait and the regular keyboard for landscape** because I'm noticing now it is much more effective in portrait than landscape and i could see it being useful for one handed typing. Right now I'm significantly slower than with the stock keyboard tho.

The issue for me is that this method assumes that my fingers have a mental memory of where each letter is spatially and the most direct path from letter to letter. I think thats where the traditional method tops it. My thumbs just know where to go for any particular letter I dont have to think about it. HTCs keyboard is great because it plays off that and makes it easier by allowing my thumbs to simply be less accurate versus learning entirely new and unatural motions. Not to mention for me, using the space bar, punctuation and any numbers or symbols seems to really disrupt the flow on the swipe method. I kept finding myself wanting to end my swipe on the space bar and continue to the next word.

Finally, 9 bucks really? It just doesnt seem smooth enough to wax people $9, certainly not worth it over my standard, faster, more efficent and more importantly FREE keyboard! It certainly does not provide a $9 advantage over any of the available free options.

With all that said once again I'm glad to see the innovation and I will try to give it a try as long as I can tolerate it. Hopefully once I get over the learning curve it will be better.

* which brings up another point. I feel like something as essential as a text input method should have a very small learning curve. The average user will not be as patient as we (ppcgeeks) are likely to be. I know people who still don't use T9 cuz its different. I have shown countless people how to use their T9 and once I get them over the very low learning curve they can't remember how they got by with out it. Right now I can't see this method having the same effect, but we'll see after more use.

** I see that there is the option to type normally on the keyboard as well as swipe which is helpful especially in landscape. I'd still prefer to have htc for landscape and use it for portrait only. I just like stock landscape better the text window is tiny with this app.

Ok back to testing hopefully I can update my update with a good experience since you all seem to like it.