Wow I've been using SlideIt today, and I'm knocked over by how much better it is than Swype. What do you think?

Question for all of you: Is it really worth $8 to switch over from Swype? I'm all about supporting developers, but $8 is pretty steep for mere incremental advantages.

Gosh, Google, if only I could test it out for more than 15 minutes, I might just buy it...

I would have to disagree. I tried slide it for a couple of days before swype opened the beta back up. And well... I just couldn't ever be very accurate or even get decent speeds from it. I figured swype would be about the same but when I tried it I found the correction features to be much better than what I experienced with slideit. Maybe it's where I'm on a small phone like the aria and I have a hard time bring accurate, but I immediately seemed to be much more accurate with swype. But that was just my experience...

Never tried Swype, but I've been using SlideIT for a long time and I've reccomended it to a ton of people. I can't say it's better, but I can say that it's awesome.

I like SlideIT so much more. It seems a lot easier to type when you don't want to swipe too.

I just switched back to SlideIt after using Swype. I flashed a new rom on my phone and Swpe wouldn't load correctly. I think it is a better slide keyboard app.

The only thing I don't like about SlideIt is when you slide a word and then hit backspace to correct something, it deletes the whole word instead of just the last letter or two. But its sliding and predicting is far superior to swype, and its market availability is also nice. Its much more friendly if you flash roms often.

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For me, pros:

• It offers more languages, including my own (unlinke swype)

• It's available on the Market

Cons:

• Ugly

• Symbols layout is stupid and structured badly (multiple pages of symbols, and the ones I use frequently, are on the 2nd page e.g. to enter a bracket, I have to push 3 buttons).

• Caps Lock doesn't work

I prefer the gingerbread keyboard to swype now as it's far more accurate and has better prediction.

I hate Swype because swyping small words who happen to have their letters scatered all over the keyboard always returns random (longer) words...

Yup, another convert from swype here, much faster on older phones, and more accurate too. Ended up buying it.

My only criticism is that some of the characters are too hidden, ? and ! are on the second screen, and it takes 3 or 4 taps to get to ()

been using slideIt for a while, Finally got on the beta of swipe and after 1 day dumped it and went back. Slideit just works, its excellent

Just tried slideit; lot less accurate than swype and if I type something like: "this is a test" it would end up "this isa test" because it doesn't automatically put the space in before a tapped letter.

Swype has a lot of room for improvement in accuracy and looks, but SlideIT is not as good in either department, IMO.

I disagree. Tested it out today and accuracy is just not that good. Swype is much more forgiving than slideit and picks up on what I meant. Agreed Swype suggests some crap sometimes but I still like it over slideit. And now with the beta being free for all, I see no reason to pay for slideit. The ability to edit words in the dictionary is the one thing that's holding back Swype and once that's added, it'll just be that much better.

I've tried the both; I still like Swype better. It gets fewer words wrong /for me/, and the kb is better looking, IMO.

Others disagree.