don't get me wrong, i like slide type keyboards. it is my preferred text input. i have been using SlideIT for a year now on my Nexus One. i also briefly used Swype beta on that phone but i stuck with SlideIT due to the annoyances of Swype.
i was a bit excited when i found out that the Atrix has an OEM Swype. for some reason, i assumed it will be better than the beta that i had used prior.
i find it really annoying that Swype doesn't give the users option to either add a word or use it just one time. once i mistype a word and press space, it is added to the Swype dictionary, and that typo will continue to show over and over again in the suggestions, often times even appearing as the first choice! if i accidentally add more strings to that typo, Swype will add an even longer nonsense word.
i can appreciate that Swype is making it easy for the program to learn words but this easy learning ability really has it's downside. i have been using Swype on my Atrix since Feb 22 and the dictionary is already filled with useless junk that Swype added to it's dictionary that often times the suggestion window is useless. i know i can delete words from the dictionary but it is not practical since Swype does not offer an easy way to do it. the way it's done, you have to type the typo that you want to remove. select that word and then press the Swype button to delete it. imagine having to do that every single time you accidentally press the space key on a mis-spelled word. i can only imagine how the Swype dictionary will look after a couple of months use.
on top of that, Swype has a really annoying bug that will tell you that legitimate words are being covered up by a word that "you" have added. there is no way to turn this notification off and as more and more typos get added, it only gets worse and worse.
predictive text is only as good as its vocabulary!
i was a bit excited when i found out that the Atrix has an OEM Swype. for some reason, i assumed it will be better than the beta that i had used prior.
i find it really annoying that Swype doesn't give the users option to either add a word or use it just one time. once i mistype a word and press space, it is added to the Swype dictionary, and that typo will continue to show over and over again in the suggestions, often times even appearing as the first choice! if i accidentally add more strings to that typo, Swype will add an even longer nonsense word.
i can appreciate that Swype is making it easy for the program to learn words but this easy learning ability really has it's downside. i have been using Swype on my Atrix since Feb 22 and the dictionary is already filled with useless junk that Swype added to it's dictionary that often times the suggestion window is useless. i know i can delete words from the dictionary but it is not practical since Swype does not offer an easy way to do it. the way it's done, you have to type the typo that you want to remove. select that word and then press the Swype button to delete it. imagine having to do that every single time you accidentally press the space key on a mis-spelled word. i can only imagine how the Swype dictionary will look after a couple of months use.
on top of that, Swype has a really annoying bug that will tell you that legitimate words are being covered up by a word that "you" have added. there is no way to turn this notification off and as more and more typos get added, it only gets worse and worse.
predictive text is only as good as its vocabulary!
after the RTFM, so I certainly deserved the RTFPost. 
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