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Originally Posted by David Marseilles
I tend use the soft keyboard for one or two word entries and my world-class hardware keyboard for everything else. I'm kind of set in my ways. But 8pen looked so interesting I had to try it. I downloaded the 8pen wordcup, a game designed to demo the entry method, tutorial style. It is pretty cool, but I think you'd have to really want to use it to learn it. It's like a chorded keyboard. Sure, you could learn to use it faster than a full board, but do you really want to?
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I used it for about a month. It took me two weeks to get proficient in it. It's accurate and the only keyboard that allows blind typing(typing w/o looking). But in the end I want speed and I don't really have the need to blind type so I defaulted back to FlexT9. FlexT9 also has the swype technology and seems to be more accurate.
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Originally Posted by David Marseilles
Swype seems like a more realistic speed boost.
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Yes, 8pen strength is in blind typing and only requires one hand. Swyping is by far the fastest key entry, but requires two hands and you must keep an eye on the keyboard. Even faster than typing for me (on the phone--on a PC I'm way faster)