Swype vs. Shapewritter

now that Swype has YET AGAIN ended it's trial I'm looking for alternatives... it seems that most people tend to lean towards Shapewriter so I got it. I haven't played with it a lot so far, but it's definitely not as intuitive as Swype. Inputs must be much more accurate to get the correct word (thus slowing me down) and the deleting of words tends to be more difficult, albeit the double tap to delete the whole word which is a nice feature.

We'll see how things go, but I would say it would be wise for Swype to not alienate a market of faithful followers already. If I get used to Shapewriter, the odds of switching back get slimmer and slimmer so they better come up with something quick if they want to keep us all (Previous Swype users) from ditching them.

I must admit ShapeWriter is a little bit better than swype .... just downloaded to my evo

My only problem with shapewriter is I'm forced to pick the word from the suggestion box to often rather than shapewriter just getting it right with the swype, basically it slows me down.

..Shapewriter?

Ok, well, it's pretty much like Swype, (moment of silence, *sigh*) but I am hating this method of using the 'backspace' button:
                       >sometimes it erases the entire word, sometimes it erases one letter
                       >when holding the backspace button down, nothing happens at all
                       >sometimes when holding the backspace button down, every word, letter by letter

Then there's the 'replacement word' fiasco where I'll type a sentence like:
                  "I don't hey this program. Outs annoying"

       But it should have been:
                  "I don't GET this program. IT'S annoying" (Banana hands)

       But when I try to change 'outs' to 'it's', I get this sentence:
                  "I don't hey this PROGRIT'S annoying"

Can anyone provide some hints and tips?

I do like how the animated trail will straighten when you complete a word, that's a nice lil feature of shapeshifter.

Well, today I got frustrated with Shapewriter so I changed input to the default keyboard. Turns out I could not, for the life of me, found a way to write a capital R while trying to log on here (BarbarianRaider) Turns out, every time I pressed case, it would go through the alternative spelllings but never with both the B&R in Capital. Why doesn't if just have freaking SHIFT key? why is it so hard to add one? one simple stop and that shift key should make the letter that follows change case, don't you think? Anyway, I don't know if I'll go back to shapewriter, unless they change the way you capitalize letters.

I believe SlideIt is a one week (or maybe 10 day) trial period for free.  Then it costs $8.29 which seems a bit heavy.

It's funny how we all have different opinions on the relative merits.  One man's preference is another's irritation!  I'm trying both SlideIt and Shapewriter to give both a good workout, and must admit that I prefer SlideIt. It gives me more accurate typing and the weird capitalization on Shapewriter annoys me.

But I still think that neither of them hold a candle to Swype.  So I'm torn - pay $8.29 for SlideIt in a few days and give up on Swype? Or make do with ShapeWriter and hope that Swype returns. hmmm . . . holding breath can be painful.

Well, I just switched to shapewriter. I loved swype but got tired of the constant attempts to keep up with the file expirations. I've got a few bugs to work out with it but so far so good. Sywpe lost a potential paying customer.

Sent from my PC36100 using Tapatalk