Nuance To Acquire Swype Inc. For $102.5M, $77.5M Paid Already

It wouldn’t be a stretch to say many users love Swype. I do, too. It’s awesome. Well, sort of.

Nuance, a ‘speech recognition and digital imaging’ software maker, is acquiring Swype Inc. for $102.5 Million, out of which $77.5 Million have already been paid. The balance will be paid 18 months after the deal is closed, say…

Just In [Screenshots Added]: Swype For Symbian 2.0 Out, Brings Split Screen Support

Just in. I am absolutely going to love those two words. The fine folks over at Nokia Betalabs have released Swype for Symbian 2.0, bringing in some cool features based on the feedback they received from both Nokia and Android users.

Here are a couple of screenshots. Looks good.

New Swype Beta Comes Up For Android, Becomes Tablet Friendly

Swype Inc., the makers of the most popular keyboard for smartphones – Swype, have released an update to v3.0. It’s an update to the previous Beta version, and there may be some bugs, but the devs have ensured that the most annoying ones have been ironed out. Also, with this release, Swype has become tablet-friendly. They have released…

Video: Swype In Portrait On The Nokia Astound

Mark Guim from The Nokia Blog has posted a video that shows off Swype in portrait mode. Oh, it’s full Qwerty. But as of now, it looks like it is available only for the Symbian^3 running Astound (aka C7 for the rest of the world), so just in case you’ve started wondering if you could get it for your…

Introducing Appomendations – Top 6 Apps for your Symbian

We’ve been spending our time for days looking at some good apps that you can use on your new Symbian phones. And from now on, we would compile a weekly list of 6 must-try apps called ‘Appomendations’, for you to test over the 6 days of the week, published every Sunday, so you know where to look up, eh?