Sep 11
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10 Billion Keystrokes Saved thanks to SwiftKey
SwiftKey is arguably one of the best alternative keyboards available for Android devices (it’s my personal fave). The more you use it, the smarter it becomes, saving countless keystrokes.
Here is a news update from the Chief Marketing Officer of SwiftKey. Pretty interesting info!
In this email, I only had to type about 1/2 of the words - the rest were predicted!
10 Billion Keystrokes Saved
Our most exciting news is that, since the launch of SwiftKey last year, we’ve now saved our users over 10 billion keystrokes - an incredible milestone. If you printed each of those keystrokes out in 12-point font and put them alongside each other, they’d stretch all the way around the globe.
To celebrate, we’re running a contest on Twitter through Friday (9th), where we’re giving away a VIZIO Tablet each day (it comes with SwiftKey Tablet X embedded!). All you have to do to enter is follow @SwiftKey on Twitter and send a Tweet telling the world how many keystrokes you’ve saved, with the hashtag #SKX10bn. We’ll pick a winner randomly at the end of each day.
Free trial apps launched
If you haven’t already heard about this summer’s launch of our radically improved keyboard apps SwiftKey X and SwiftKey Tablet X, you’ve probably been hiding under a rock. Fear not, however, as we’ve launched two free apps that let new users try both our smartphone and tablet apps for a month! The apps are available on the Android Market and on Amazon Appstore in the US.
Survey shows importance of text entry
Earlier this year we conducted a major survey of over 30,000 smartphone and tablet users, in association with blog network Smartphone Experts. The results were published last week and make interesting reading.
In particular, we noted that phone users find entering text — for messaging, searches and so on — a more essential feature on their phone than voice features. But, our respondents also reported that on the whole, text entry on smartphones was a poor experience, especially on Android. Thankfully, of all those asked, 97% felt that SwiftKey significantly improved their writing experience on Android. We feel this lends strong support to what we are doing at TouchType in trying to improve the way the world enters text… and we’re just getting started!
