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SlideIT, New Keyboard Application For Symbian

By Wampyre on December 3, 2009

multilanguagesSlideIT is an application that has been available for Windows Mobile handsets for some time but Daisur, the company behind the product, have now launched their leading software to the Symbian platform.

The application tends to aid in the typing experience on Symbian-powered handsets with a touch screen. With features like gesture control, automatic spelling correction (online and offline), adaptive texting and shortcuts, this looks like a good addition to your phone and worth a try.

Below is a video of the application demonstrated on a Windows Mobile handset and the UI seems very good.


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All you need to do to get the application is to head over to their download page and fill in the details. The application supports all of Nokias touch enabled handsets such as the N97 mini, X6 and the 5230. Spelling correction for English is included in the application and a total of 13 other language packs can be downloaded for free. Unfortunately no Asian languages is available. For those concerned about privacy issues, they do ask you to provide your IMEI number.

Do you find using the standard keyboard on your touch enabled handsets to be painful given the lack of spelling correction, or do you find that most 3rd party keyboard applications are?

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Cheung Yuen Wong had his first meeting with Symbian when he acquired the N-Gage Classic phone. Swiftly after he became addicted and amazed at the possibilities in which the Symbian operating system offered in terms of usability and power. You can follow Cheung on Twitter at @Wampyre.

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  • lorim97

    Favorited. Thank you! This should make things much easier I think. Touchscreens can be pretty annoying sometimes.

  • mbrett

    It does refer to the download as a free DEMO. Any ideas on the limitation or restrictions, etc.

  • http://www.symbian-guru.com khouryrt

    Yeah, did the same with me. I'll wait and see how this turns out when they send me the email.

  • http://andrewcurrie.ca acurrie

    Isn't this the same as Swype?

    http://www.swypeinc.com/

    I'd rather hold off for an S60 release from them, as the guy behind swype invented T9 (I think?)

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  • mbrett

    Well my e-mail's arrived and refers to it as:
    * SlideIT keyboard for Symbian S60 5th edition.
    * Version: 3.1.2.1 Demo – beta

    I'll try it out later. Did notice that it has three attachments to the e-mail:
    Symbian sign application (application/octet-stream), 2 K
    SlideIT for Symbian (application/octet-stream), 35 K
    Dasur (application/octet-stream), 28 K

    When I get the chance to download teh e-mial and files later today I'll figure out why. Only expected one file in the form of a sis or sisx.

  • http://www.symbian-guru.com khouryrt

    Heh, I fell for those attachments too. No, these aren't the actual file. You have to have html enabled to see that the real link to the .sis file is in the email body “SlideIT_Demo(beta).sisx” :D

  • mbrett

    Noticed a glitch in Nokia Messaging in that I have it set to html, but the SlideIT e-mail doesn't display right on my N97. Also if I look at the hyperlink at the bottom of the e-mail, Nokia Messaging appears unable to handle a “(” in a hyperlink as this character causes the hyperlink to be cut short.

    Interesting, although a little off topic.

  • parno

    Well I just installed it from nokia messaging on my phone, never noticed the different attachments. Worked a treat last night, I was mightily impressed. But this morning it was repeating what I swiped over and over and then totally messed up my 5800 and now I am in the process of restoring it as I can't do anything with the phone at all! Not impressed and it just seemed so cool. Quite disappointed now.

  • http://www.risorsefree.info/una-tastiera-virtuale-migliore-per-nokia-n97-mini-e-symbian-touchscreen.html Una tastiera virtuale "migliore" per Nokia N97 mini e Symbian touchscreen | Risorse Free

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  • lorim97

    DASUR add additional language to SlideIT Symbian keyboard – Russian
    They are going to add more additional languages as Turkish, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Greek, Estonian, Slovak and Polish.
    http://www.mobiletextinput.com/Product/SlideIT/…

  • wampyre

    I didn't know of them. But it like they provide the same functions.

  • wampyre

    Thanks for adding this information.

  • wampyre

    I'm sorry to hear what happened to your phone.
    I've finally had time to try the application myself.
    It went quite flawlessly on my N97.

    I noticed under the settings that you can set the default keyboard.
    I went with the Nokia keyboard as default and then manually switched on SlideIT.
    Taking this precaution as I've already have fontrouter and asian fonts installed
    which can easily mess other applications on my phone.
    E.g. Happy Wakeup does not work with other fonts installed on phone.

    It does take away the purpose of using the keyboard but I personally
    found it to be a bit unprecise (Can be due to N97's screen) and the buttons were smaller
    and less “responsive” than the virtual keyboard you find in e.g. Opera Mobile,
    which I have no problem with despite it being similar in size as SlideIT.

    What I find a bit strange is that they say it's a demo but then they say it's a beta. Had I know that it was a beta and not a full demo I would've put a disclaimer of course.

  • parno

    You know I might try that. I did set it as default. Even if it goes wrong again I will just do a hard reset, its not that much of a problem.

    I'll let you know how I get on.

    Oooo am excited again now!

  • jkhan69

    Thanks for letting us know. It works as a charm, however when SlideIT is installed the */+ button the keypad doesn't work. Noticed it when I was trying to get the IMEI #

  • jkhan69

    Thanks for letting us know. It works as a charm, however when SlideIT is installed the */+ button the keypad doesn't work. Noticed it when I was trying to get the IMEI #

  • Warmen Brum

    I've said so many times that I would never get another Symbian phone, but since SlideIT came out, I tried to reevaluate what I was looking for in a phone.

    You can download it here: http://mobiletextinput.com/

  • lucas

    SlideIT in Croatian is available
    http://mobiletextinput.com/Product/SlideIT/symb…

  • Coren

    Have you try the new full version on OVI ?

    see this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9-PCFT0Bos

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