14 DAY TRIAL // A new version of Swype for Symbian for S60 5th Edition devices was made available for download, packing a wide range of fixes and enhancements. The application is available in a beta flavor, just as it was when put on download for the first time a few weeks ago. For those who might have not encountered Swype until now, we should note that the solution was meant to enable faster and more accurate typing on the small screen of mobile phones.
The solution is able to provide faster and easier text input on any screen, and now it also includes a series of performance improvements and bug fixes.
“We are happy to bring you this update of Swype for Symbian. Thanks so much for using Swype and providing valuable discussion, reviews and bug reports in the forums,” the guys over at Nokia Beta Labs state.
“It took us awhile, but you really helped us improve this new version. We'd appreciate it if you downloaded the new version and continued providing your comments and feedback. Happy Swyping!”
Some of the main improvements in this release would include enhanced word prediction performance, better tapping performance, improved performance for backspace, delete, and delete word back, as well as for edit layer formatting and functionality.
The new release comes with language dictionary support, and with resolved Spanish dictionary issues, as well as with fully functional included languages (English, Spanish, FrenchCA, PortugueseBr).
The release notes for the new Swype for Symbian beta, v.12936, also include:
- Issues with settings changes taking effect are resolved - Haptic feedback behavior has been improved and audio feedback support has been removed - Several UI changes including font sizes + word choice window - Triple tap in the X6 ICF no longer crashes application - Bringing up a diacritic menu and dragging to it no longer crashes application - Rotating with the word choice window open no longer crashes application - Crash on Page Up/Page Down/End/Home when there is no text in ICF is resolved - Second word is no longer always capitalized - Issues while receiving or on a call have been resolved - Backspace now works in Qt/WRT applications - Keymapping has been finalized (Tab has been removed) - Conditional behavior for password fields has improved - "Do not show this tip" functionality has been added to Tips - Drawing artificacts related to word choice window, secondary popups and rotation have been fixed
As stated above, the application is available for Nokia S60 5th Edition touch screen phones, icnluding the Nokia 5800, Nokia 5230, Nokia X6 (no portrait mini-qwerty for firmware v21.0.004), Nokia N97, Nokia N97mini and Nokia C6-00.
Those of you interested in learning more info on the application should take a look at the video below, which describes some of its main features, or to head over to the Nokia Beta Labs website for more.