No more "experimenting" with the ingenious Arc mode of Microsoft's Word Flow keyboard app for iPhones, as Redmond puts all its chips on SwiftKey.
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Alternative mobile keyboard SwiftKey has a new look to it, mainly in its themes store. It has to do with the word, “free.” Also, the holidays.
More than 100 SwiftKey themes for iOS and Android are now available free of charge from the eponymous company behind the app. Those include the new “Vivid” looks which come in bold neon hues and shades, a selection of which you see above.
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Microsoft’s SwiftKey has completed its first major order of business since its acquisition — make a keyboard all about the emoji.Swiftmoji, now available for iOS and Android, brings smartened emoji suggestions on top of the word suggestion bar, not relegated to a panel of icons you have to pull up and dig through.There are over a thousand of these little things out there and ...
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Well, that sure didn’t take long. It was only a month ago that the first rumors of Microsoft’s interest in snagging Swiftkey emerged, with Redmond confirming the story mere hours after it broke, and already, the acquisition is completed.The mutually beneficial news was unveiled with surprisingly little fanfare by MS Executive Vice President Harry Shum on Twitter, and the financial details remain under wraps. Officially, that is, because off the record, we’ve heard Satya Nadella & co. were prepared to pay around ...
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The Financial Times is sourcing “people familiar” to report that Microsoft will acquire TouchType, the company that makes algorithm-assisted keyboard app Swiftkey, for $250 million.This is the Microsoft’s first acquisition of a mobile-centric services provider in 2016. It acquired the developers of the Accompli, Sunrise Calendar,
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When it comes to third-party alternatives for your pre-installed Android keyboard apps, there are really only two choices that seem to make sense for the masses. But if you want to be able to use all 184 new and 48 refreshed emojis in 6.0.1 Marshmallow at their full potential, SwiftKey beats Swype to the punch, picking up an update dedicated entirely to quirky ideograms and smileys.Quirky? Some of them can be outright weird and confusing for both a sender and recipient, yet that’s probably one of the main reasons people appear ...
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Swiftkey has already gained a lot of fame for being able to predict what you’re typing in up to three languages without switching. This popularity has even extended to helping Professor Stephen Hawking battle his communication issues with a customized keyboard. Today we learn that the company was also planning a bolder approach, and it involves artificial intelligence.Swiftkey has just announced its new “Neural Alpha” keyboard, which attempts to replicate the way the brain works in ...
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Yesterday we learned about a potentially nasty situation brewing with the software on many Samsung Androids, as a vulnerability discovered in the SwiftKey-designed keyboard such phones shipped with could present an attacker with the opportunity to sneak some malicious code onto the handsets. And despite the security researchers having notified Samsung late last year, it wasn’t clear just which, if any phones had been patched to address the issue. We asked Samsung just what was going on in its ...
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SwiftKey makes one of the more popular software keyboards around, so it’s little surprise that Samsung partnered up with the company to have it create the keyboard you’ll find on many popular Samsung phones. Unfortunately, it’s recently come to light that this software contains a potentially devastating security vulnerability that could give an attacker a foothold into your smartphone.The vulnerability has to do with the way the ...
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Right now, there are two big software releases we’re looking forward to on the OnePlus One. First, there’s the debut of the company’s own OxygenOS release, intended as a replacement platform following the falling-out with Cyanogen – and earlier this week, we checked out some leaked images that might just be this software. And then there’s the anticipated CyanogenMod 12S (for those countries where Cyanogen hasn’t signed exclusive deals with other OEMs), the Lollipop-based ...
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By now you all know that one of our favorite third-party keyboards on both iOS and Android is SwiftKey, not just for its text-prediction capabilities, but because it allows you type in up to three languages without having to swap keyboards. We’re sure you also know that one of the smartest people in the world is theoretical physicist and author Stephen Hawking, and who suffers from a rare condition related to amyotrophic lateral ...
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Back in early June, SwiftKey announced a pretty substantial change to its business model, making its keyboard free to download from the Play Store, and earning its money through the sale of add-on themes. Today it’s got more good news for its users, announcing a pretty decent update to the app, the arrival of new themes, and the start of a theme sale.Let’s dive right in to the changes arriving with this update. While on first impression it might look like a run-of-the-mill bugfix/tweak release, ...
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As a long-time proponent of BlackBerrys, I was particularly adverse to the idea of soft keyboards back in 2009. I had gotten so used to the renowned BlackBerry keyboard that I was skeptical I – or anyone else, for that matter – would ever be able to type as efficiently as one could on a pocket-sized physical keyboard, especially those on BlackBerry handsets.I’m not sure I’m getting my point across. I really liked BlackBerrys, its physical keyboards, and hated practically everything ...
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SwiftKey’s easily one of the more popular alternative keyboards around, and there have been plenty of ways to get access to it. You could participate in a public beta, check out the free version of the app, or pony up and pay for the premium edition. And really, considering all it offers, including its powerful word prediction engine, the four bucks that premium version demanded seemed like a small price to pay. But now SwiftKey is taking a page ...
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Swifkey is probably one of the best inventions to ever reach the Android ecosystem. It’s not only one of the smartest and better looking keyboards in the Play Store, but for those of us that live abroad, it makes it extremely easy to handle multi-lingual typing over the same UI, with no need for a language-switch button. We all heard the rumors of the service reaching iOS to some extent, and that’s now a reality. Say hello to Swiftkey Note, the company’s new app for iOS. Sadly, as opposed to Android where you get a full keyboard replacement, Swiftkey is a just a Notes ...
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