keyboards
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Google’s Awesome Native Keyboard Is Now An Android App
Google Keyboard is Google’s new keyboard replacement app that’s very similar to Swype or SwiftKey. The app lets you use gestures to type, meaning you can continuously slide across letters to make a word and just lift your finger to make a space.
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QWERTY’s Origin Story Is A Big Fat Lie
You use it every day without a second thought, but if you think about it for just a second, QWERTY is really, really weird. Where did something so strangely unintuitive come from? The popular story is that it has to do with typewriter mechanics and jamming prevention, and although that explanation sure is tidy, it’s…
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This Smart, Tiny Phone Keyboard Would Be Amazing… If It Works
Phone and tablet keyboards are humongous, relative to the screens they live on, and admittedly adhere to an antiquated typewriter metaphor. Minuum is a new way to think about how to make a digital keyboard tiny and forgiving, mostly, but it also highlights just how damn hard it is to come up with something better.
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SwiftKey 4 Adds Flow So You Never Have To Stop Typing
SwiftKey 4 is the latest version of one of the best Android replacement keyboards. The update introduces “Flow”, or swipe to type, new gestures and word prediction for 60 languages.