ShapeWriter Makes Writing Easier on iPhone, Windows Mobile Phones and Tablets

By Contributor Wireless and Mobile News on January 2, 2009 1:25 PM

ShapeWriter Inc is now offering their predictive text entry apps forn Windows Mobile, Android, and Windows XP/Vista They are also upgrading to their popular WritingPad 1.0 iPhon application. Now called ShapeWriter 2.0, this enhanced version is available at the Apple iTunes App Store.

ShapeWriter helps touchscreen writers avoid "hunting and pecking" letters, single gestures on a touch keyboard produce an entire word. For example: a stroke that roughly connects the w, o, r and d keys is recognized by ShapeWriter's intelligent algorithms as the word "word".

Experienced users can write much faster on ShapeWriter than on a conventional keyboard. All ShapeWriter products run in real time on mobile devices and feature advanced editing, automatic formatting and capitalization, error tolerance, misspelling correction, and gesture commands.

ShapeWriter 1.0 on Android, a winner of Google's Android Developer Challenge, has been specifically customized for T-Mobile's G1. It supports note taking, email, SMS and a fun practice game.

ShapeWriter 1.0 on Windows Mobile is a system-wide input method supporting all standard software applications on Windows Mobile and Pocket PC 2003. It works on phones from manufacturers such as HTC, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson.

ShapeWriter 1.0 on Windows XP/Vista is suited for Tablet PCs, HP Touch Smart computers, UMPCs, and any PC connected with a Wacom^TM tablet.

ShapeWriter 2.0 is a major upgrade from WritingPad 1.0, named by Time.com as one of iPhone's top 11 must have applications. Version 2.0 incorporates many new features requested by early users.

About ShapeWriter^TM. ShapeWriter is a breakthrough text input technology developed for nearly a decade by scientists at IBM Almaden Research Center. Under the code name SHARK, its early version was made publicly available from IBM AlphaWorks in 2004 and received enthusiastic reviews from technology critics and the media such as The New York Times, BBC News, San Jose Mercury News, New Scientist, and the Economist.