Making Things Happen » touchscreen http://www.francescofederico.net Francesco Federico's blog Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:13:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The touch (r)evolution http://www.francescofederico.net/2010/05/10/the-touch-revolution/ http://www.francescofederico.net/2010/05/10/the-touch-revolution/#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 11:03:14 +0000 Francesco http://www.francescofederico.net/?p=464 It’s amazing to notice how fast touchscreen phones are gaining market share these days. Keep in mind that these graphs are referred only to Nokia (which produces tons of entry level phones).

Via: LUKEW

]]> http://www.francescofederico.net/2010/05/10/the-touch-revolution/feed/ 0 Swype vs. touch keyboards http://www.francescofederico.net/2009/11/25/swype-vs-touch-keyboards/ http://www.francescofederico.net/2009/11/25/swype-vs-touch-keyboards/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:00:43 +0000 Francesco http://www.francescofederico.net/?p=405 Back in the “old days” when I was a happy iPhone user, I remember how hard it was to type long messages on that tiny touchscreen keyboard, especially as I was coming from a BlackBerry Curve 8300.

Swype is a new technology that promise to bring ease back to touchscreen writing, by understanding what are you going to write as you swipe your fingers across the screen.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTooBnKAdSw

The idea is very interesting and the execution shown in the video looks pretty impressive, I should try it to say my final word, but at least it looks like something it’s going on in touchscreen input methods!

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