A Better Soft Keyboard for your Android Smartphone

It seems these days that every Android device comes with slightly different interfaces and soft keyboards which can be a selling point for some or plain annoying for others. If you do change between Android handsets from various manufacturers then you might like to standardise upon a soft keyboard so your transition between handsets is less disruptive.

Anyway, one keyboard that you might like to try out is SwiftKey 3.

One notable feature of this soft keyboard is its ability to learn your typing style before you even start using it. You can point SwiftKey 3 at your various feeds, such as:

  • Facebook,
  • Gmail,
  • RSS feeds (if you have a blog or another online place which has an RSS feed),
  • SMS,
  • Twitter.

You can also set SwiftKey to one of two typing styles – precise (for people who might be slower and rely on predictive text to do the heavy lifting for them) or rapid (for people who type fast with both thumbs and rely on autocorrections to iron out any minor mistakes along the way).

They keys are of a good size and you have easy access to numbers and commonly used symbols by holding down the respective key until it is typed. For exclamation and question marks you can churn those out very quickly by swiping the punctuation key to the left and right respectively.

Anyway, I really like this soft keyboard for Android so far although it has had a few instances of it going a bit crazy with large amounts of jumbled text and one crash. With Android being what it is, I am willing to overlook those few circumstances for the more natural and convenient typing experience gained with SwiftKey 3 compared to the proprietary keyboards offered by the likes of Samsung and HTC.

if you want to try it out you can give it a shot for thirty days for no cost by downloading it from Google Play.

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