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A little over a year ago Chris posted a piece about the Swype software, and yet here is Swype again attempting to change consumers’ perspectives on typing using software keyboards. Since my introduction to software keyboards came in the form of the near-microscopic keys in Windows Mobile 6.0, I was slow to adopt the prediction-correction-ridden virtual-boards. The correction software on even the iPhone still throws me for a loop, and yet Samsung decides to turn convention on its head to welcome the 2009 holiday season with Swype on the Samsung Omnia II for Verizon.

The marketing campaign on this handset needs to be equally innovating if Verizon hopes to lure consumers to abandon their physical and traditional software keyboards for a drawing-based typing option. Maybe like the Nexus UI on the Sony Ericsson X10, Swype could be optional and deactivated. Tapping a letter and dragging a finger to other letters to punch out sentences calls for some kind of training wheels, especially since this method seems to heavily rely on the handset to predict the words. Since I like to write lengthy emails and use Word Mobile on my Tilt, I wonder if Swype would hamper the functionality of the Samsung Omnia II and consign users to just Twitter until they get to a laptop or PC.

Source: TechCrunch