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Enter Swift input.

This was the same dude who invented t9.

The video actually looks like a slick idea.

I'm interested in trying it out soon.

I could see it being a bit frustrating at first... but i can also see it being amazing to use once you get the hang of it.

Impressive! I'd like to see what that could do for iPhone typing.

sounds like it could help with my horrible spelling too.

I'd play with it. Seems like a pretty good idea. Kind of funny how he seemed humble when saying "I was one of the inventers of T9, which has been installed on billions of phones..."

Wow, that's surprisingly usefull (seeming). It seems like it would be hard to do with one hand. That is to say, holding the phone in your hand, and using that same thumb to swipe. I don't know how great it is if I still have to use two hands, but that really depends on the size of the displayed keyboard.

I don't know how many of you are aware, but Apple released a revolutionary Japanese Input Method with the iPhone 3G.
There already existed the standard multi-tap method of input, but Apple created a "flick" method.

Normally: 1-9 function as multi-tap for the various syllable lines. For example, the letter 5 would be the "na" line. Tap once = na, twice = ni, thrice = nu, four = ne, five = no. You can see how tapping five times to get to one syllable would take a while. Under the flick method, tapping 5 would still produce "na", but if you press 5 and flick left, you get "ni". Similarly, tapping 2 gets you "ka", and flicking left gets you "ki". Does that make sense?

In this YouTube video you can see a sample of someone "flick" inputting. This comes darn near as fast to typing in Japanese, which isn't as swift as English typically. My mouth dropped when I first saw it, and I want an iPhone, just so I can flick everything I save to the phone.