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With the launch of its version 2.2 of SwiftKey X and SwiftKey Tablet X, the company is as close as its ever been to delivering the utopian touchscreen typing experience. A faster, artificially intelligent language engine; the best multi-touch keyboard implementation ever experienced; lashing of UI polish... and that's without mentioning the incredible boost in language coverage.



This new version of SwiftKey continues to set the standard for phone and tablet communication. It has the most powerful language technology that's ever been engineered for typing on a touchscreen, coupled with a smooth and polished user interface and an ever-growing suite of great features. Those who haven't tried SwiftKey yet should be asking why; millions of downloads and one of the world's highest app rankings are just two reasons the company knows that this technology is here to stay.



SWIFTKEY X and SWIFTKEY TABLET X (v. 2.2 UPDATE)



TOP FEATURES:



Full language localization for major European languages

Typing support extended to 35 languages, including Arabic and Hebrew

New multi-touch framework for faster typing

Prediction/correction boosted by faster, more efficient Fluency engine

Full support for Android 4.0 operating system (Ice Cream Sandwich)

UX enhancements, including better settings menu, alternative character selection and sharing features



LANGUAGES, LANGUAGES, LANGUAGES!



With this release of SwiftKey X and SwiftKey Tablet X v2.2, the company has taken a major leap forward with its language support. For the first time, users will have an end-to-end SwiftKey experience in their native tongue (in addition to English, of course).



SwiftKey also now offers typing support for a grand total of 35 languages, giving speakers of everything from Afrikaans to Ukrainian an unrivaled prediction and correction experience as they type. SwiftKey's latest supported languages are Arabic and Hebrew, and SwiftKey users are of course able to enable up to three languages at once, for a seamless multilingual communication experience.



Full list of supported languages:



Afrikaans



Arabic



Basque



Bulgarian



Catalan



Croatian



Czech



Danish



Dutch



English (UK)



English (US)



Finnish



French (CA)



French (FR)



Galician



German



Greek



Hebrew



Hungarian



Indonesian



Italian



Kazakh



Norwegian



Polish



Portuguese (BR)



Portuguese (PT)



Romanian



Russian



Slovak



Slovenian



Spanish (ES)



Spanish (US)



Swedish



Turkish



Ukrainian



MULTI-TOUCH FOR SPEED FREAKS: SwiftKey redesigned its multi-touch framework to enable the fastest speed typing and accuracy from a touchscreen keyboard yet. Using all the power of our Fluency language inference engine, users can now type at lighting-fast speeds without accuracy and SwiftKey is able to make sense of their multiple, successive key-presses, offering the world's best personal touchscreen correction experience. We've also added the Dvorak and Colemak keyboard layouts for typists who prefer these more efficient options.



A FASTER, MORE EFFICIENT ENGINE: The team of SwiftKey engineers have been hard at work making Fluency, the clever language tech that powers SwiftKey's corrections and predictions, even faster and more efficient. For the end user, this means SwiftKey will operate faster and use less memory, especially on slower handsets. It's as if we've just doubled the MPG of the SwiftKey engine.



UX POLISH TO MAKE YOU SMILE: SwiftKey version 2.2 is the release that'll make UX fans smile. The company's made a range of UX tweaks that improve the overall look and feel of SwiftKey X. This includes the ability to adjust the keyboard key height in both portrait and landscape, an improved implementation of our alternative character selection for users who long-press, and a clear settings menu layout. Other UX improvement highlights include full support for Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), an improved menu for sharing SwiftKey with your friends, and a better implementation of the typing heatmap graphic, which shows you how Fluency models your typing accuracy with each key to improve predictions.