According to the company, that’s an increase of up to 50% in your typing efficiency. SwiftKey claims that a third of the words can be predicted even before you tap the first letter and the majority just with one or two clicks. What’s the big deal? SwiftKey’s technology works on AI, learning from the user’s writing style and predicting as he/she types. Their public beta version has already generated 250,000 downloads, making it the most downloaded keyboard in the Android Market, says the London, UK-based company.

The new version is slick, not to mention faster. I’ve been using the keyboard for about two months now and despite some hiccups, it is already a lifesaver. The release of the bigger and better SwiftKey for Android wouldn’t be big news, if it wasn’t for the fact that it is.

If you haven’t heard of SwiftKey by TouchType and you have an Android phone, you’re either suffering with the native keyboard or trying out some of the other popular alternatives, such as Swype for instance.

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