SwiftKey’s Note is a great way to penetrate iOS and eventually Windows Phone

Since SwiftKey introduced it’s Android keyboard I’ve never used any other. It’s fast, intuitive, customisable and it learns! I can typically type full sentences with just a few touches.

Unfortunately iOS users never knew what they were missing out on because they’re stuck on the stock iOS keyboard. There’s nothing wrong with it.. but that’s just it.. it’s just a plain keyboard that just does that. Some thought that since the iPhone 5 stretched the screen that it should have given way for Apple to add word predictions but they never did.  And they never allowed 3rd party keyboards so SwiftKey was always going to be stuck to Android only.

SwiftKey has figured out a way to penetrate iOS with a simple yet clever note taking app that has the prediction engine that SwiftKey is famous for.

The SwiftKey note app has 3 key features

• Smarter autocorrect that learns from the user
• Predicts your next word
• It’s synchronized with Evernote to the cloud

I think what’s important about this is how clever SwiftKey has been about this, they’ve been able to enter a platform that has blocked them. If this is a success then they can also replicate this on Windows Phone giving making them a player in all major smartphone markets.

Download the app from iTunes here.

Busy day for Samsung

Samsung has announced a few devices today at IFA 2012.

Galaxy Note II – This is just a bigger pen friendly version of the Galaxy S III.

Ativ S – Again this looks like the S III but has Windows Phone 8 instead of Android.

Ativ Tab – a Windows 8 RT tablet, looks good.

Ativ Smart PC and Smart PC Pro – These are basically Windows 8 tablets with a keyboard that can be attached and closed to form a laptop.

Galaxy Camera – This is perhaps the most interesting out of all, a 16MP 21 optical zoom Android 4.1 camera. To me this is awesome, it is full Android with WiFi and 3G/4G as well as being a proper camera with a proper sensor. Think of all the photos you can take then edit and upload. You can take and send upload photos via Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Path, Flickr etc. You can take a photo and email it straight away or post it to a blog. The beauty of it is you can use the 1000s of photography apps that Android has to offer like Vignette, Paper Camera, Pano, Adobe Photoshop Express to edit the photos on the go as well. So many possibilities.