{"id":405586,"date":"2010-03-08T16:53:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T21:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=27611"},"modified":"2010-03-08T16:53:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T21:53:59","slug":"swype-for-android-rolls-into-semi-public-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/405586","title":{"rendered":"Swype for Android rolls into semi-public Beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Screen-shot-2010-03-08-at-March-8-1.25.12-PM-158x300.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Screen shot 2010-03-08 at [ March 8 ] 1.25.12 PM\" width=\"158\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-27617\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Swype for Android&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2009\/12\/15\/swype-android-video\/\">finger-dragging input method goodness <\/a>has been available to some extent through other means for a while now &#8212; some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/02\/09\/t-mobile-mytouch-1-2-launching-tomorrow-with-swype-keyboard\/\">legit<\/a>, some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2009\/12\/30\/how-to-get-swype-on-android\/\">not quite as legit.<\/a> Legitimate means or otherwise, Swype has still only been made available to pretty small group of people.<\/p>\n<p>Well, things are about to open up &#8212; if only just a bit.<br \/>\n<span id=\"more-27611\"><\/span><br \/>\nSwype has just announced their first official Beta release, and will be accepting applications to the testing program <a href=\"http:\/\/beta.swype.com\/\">here<\/a>.  Swype does say that user-installed copies will be missing some of the features that the factory-installed versions have &#8211; but they&#8217;re not saying exactly which features that entails. The beta supports HVGA (320&#215;480) and WVGA (around 480&#215;800) screens, which should cover just about everything from the T-Mobile G1 to the Nexus One.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to get your application in quick to increase your odds of getting in &#8211; and if you do get in, be sure to let us know!<\/p>\n<p>[Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phonescoop.com\/site\/email_link.php?bu=1&#038;cid=5609&#038;back=1\">Phonescoop<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/5FPeKtELrsG29m5iNyqsD2-s2jE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/5FPeKtELrsG29m5iNyqsD2-s2jE\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/5FPeKtELrsG29m5iNyqsD2-s2jE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/5FPeKtELrsG29m5iNyqsD2-s2jE\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=Nq_KHSZK9r0:xfUI1eB3Mo4:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=Nq_KHSZK9r0:xfUI1eB3Mo4:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=Nq_KHSZK9r0:xfUI1eB3Mo4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=Nq_KHSZK9r0:xfUI1eB3Mo4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=Nq_KHSZK9r0:xfUI1eB3Mo4:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swype for Android&#8217;s finger-dragging input method goodness has been available to some extent through other means for a while now &#8212; some legit, some not quite as legit. Legitimate means or otherwise, Swype has still only been made available to pretty small group of people. Well, things are about to open up &#8212; if only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":682,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}