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Long before the home entertainment zenith of the invention of TV and the subsequent nadir of Channel 5, families would make their own amusement by gathering in the parlour around the ‘Old Joanna’ and belting out a few hymns. Fortunately, those dark days are long gone, but if you fancy a go tickling the ivories for old time’s sake, the latest addition to the Android app army is just the thing: Magic Piano… read more

  THE STORY Fat, feckless fingers that don’t do what you want on your phone? Specious sense of spelling that causes confusion in text conversations? Or just generally bored of your ’board? Then you need SwiftKey X Keyboard… We’ve all suffered avoidable mistakes at the hands of our smartphone’s stock virtual keyboards, whether through lack of attention, tiredness or the consumption of alcohol, but SwiftKey X lessens the margin of miscommunication thanks to some smart thinking that delivers more precise predictions and far more careful corrections. THE EXPERIENCE Offering differing themes to suit every type, support of a slew of read more

Touchtype’s original QWERTY SwiftKey Keyboard has been a massive success, garnering five-star reviews almost across the board and giving rivals like Swype something to think about. Touchtype has followed it up with SwiftKey X Beta, which is a free download (for the time being). read more

New Android phone for Christmas? Let this be your first download.

You see, Qwerty keyboards were designed to slow down fast-fingered typists in the early days of typewriters – and they’ve been doing it ever since.

Swype was created by the co-inventor of the T9 predictive-text system for old-school mobiles and it is dragging the keyboard into the 21st century. The app promises to deliver a newer and faster way to enter text that will turn even a clumsy hunt-and-peck typist into an expert swype-ist. read more

The Story The combination of tiny mobile-phone screens and fingers larger than an eight-year old child’s are the perfect recipe for misspelled words and digital frustration. ThickButtons attempts to help redress the balance by automatically adjusting the size of letters on your handset’s virtual keyboard as you type. It shrinks those that aren’t likely to be used in the word you are currently typing and expands those that are. The Experience After choosing ThickButtons as your preferred method of text input (an easy task), you might wonder what the fuss is about. The on-screen keyboard looks completely normal – until read more