[APP] 8pen Now Available for Download
 

Today’s the day, folks. We enjoyed a lengthy, healthy discussion about 8pen last night, and it’s now available for download.

Source By: Quentyn Kennemer

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news article written about this. please discuss here

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Looks interesting but I already suck with a qwerty keyboard, this would just kill me!

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Would be cool if I could just try it out for free, but swype is too good to be betting on some other keyboard

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Boy are the makers of this stupid keyboard putting a all out campaign on the net.Lets see sprintusers,xda,here,you name it the hype is trying to sell some of these.

Truth be told i tried it free off a site you can get this stuff free to try it out and did for 2 days and it sucks.Why you would use this over Swype or smart keyboard is past me but hey go for it if you want to waste your time and money with it.

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just search the net was easy to find free and download.

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The thing is, it essentially uses gesture recognition to identify characters. But if you are going to do that, why use an arbitrary coordinate system when you could just have the phone recognize gestures that draw the actual letters? 8Pen makes you learn shapes that are sort of variations on the shape of a capital G. How is that easier than just drawing each letter.

But then we've tried and abandoned that sort of system already with the old Palm Pilots.

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Googled it, tried it, liked it, but I've got Swype. In the time it takes to write "YOU" with 8pen I can write "YOU ARE HERE" with Swype. If I had some wack a$$ phone with a ticky tack iphone-style keyboard I would definitely give this a serious try, but Swype and the slide-out keyboard are more than what I need...

Cool idea though.