Posted by: Jane Douglas
The Quench, Motorola’s shiny first touchscreen tablet with the Motoblur interface over the Android OS, includes Swype. 
Swype is a typing helper that lets you slide a path over the letters you want on the virtual qwerty keyboard. It interprets that path and suggests a short list of words it thinks you meant to ‘type’. With the intention of boosting your speed and accuracy on a phone that has no keypad, though there is a ‘laptop-like’ touchpad below the screen.
So it’s smart typing correction as found on, say, the iPhone, but with a single (if long) sliding gesture over the screen instead of multiple taps. It worked reasonably well on the Quench when we tried it, turning short text messages into a series of squiggly gestures. And, as you’d hope, it learns over time, picking up those fancy non-dictionary words you’re trying to get across.
Once you’d gotten accustomed to the patterns of your most commonly used words, you might build up a decent typing speed, even in the absence of a physical keyboard.
When are Microsoft going to do something about all this Windows Live spam?Every entry in the Tech and Gadgets blogs seems blighted by some dickhead posting clickfraud spam.