| IPhone is a great device to manage information and | | | | even have to capitalize or space as the application |
| schedule. Most people would agree that iPhone has a | | | | takes care of them automatically. |
| great interface that makes it easy to find and view | | | | Text input using ShapeWriter is incredibly faster and |
| information such as emails and websites. However, | | | | more accurate than on the original iPhone keyboard. |
| there is one very serious drawback in the otherwise | | | | This is only natural as you can write several letters |
| great smartphone. It is the built-in onscreen keyboard. | | | | with a single stroke on ShapeWriter whereas you |
| The keyboard is simply too little to provide fast and | | | | should type every single letter with the original |
| accurate typing. The problem gets more serious if | | | | keyboard. The accuracy with which the program |
| you have big hands. Trying to write a long piece of | | | | suggests words is also amazing. For one stroke, the |
| writing on the keyboard very often becomes a | | | | application shows three or four candidate words and |
| frustrating experience. Even if you have small hands, | | | | most of the time it gets the words right. This means |
| you rarely achieve the usual typing speed that you | | | | you can go on writing words after words by making |
| can get on a computer keyboard. | | | | successive strokes without having to press Caps or |
| An iPhone application called "ShapeWriter" is a great | | | | space button. |
| alternative to solve this problem. It is a text editor | | | | In sum, I think ShapeWriter more than doubles or |
| with a different input system. Instead of typing | | | | triples, depending on how well you adapt to the |
| individual letters, you cross your finger over alphabets | | | | program, the speed and accuracy of text input on |
| that compose each word. ShapeWriter reads the | | | | the iPhone compared to the original keyboard. |
| finger movement and suggest words that you meant | | | | ShapeWriter is highly recommendable to any person |
| to write in order of higher probability. If the first | | | | who wants a better option for writing on the iPhone. |
| suggested word on the list is the right one, you | | | | The application is also available for Android mobile |
| make a next stroke for the next word. You don't | | | | phone, Windows mobile phone, and tablet PCs. |