Swype – the alternate input method to make touchscreen keyboards just THAT much better is getting more popular now and being bundled with some new phones. I’ve just recently had a chance to mess with it, and I tell ya, it’s pretty sweet!
For those that aren’t familiar with it, instead of hunting and pecking and trusting the predictive text, you basically just swipe your finger across the keyboard from letter to letter, and the Swype keyboard can predict pretty accurately what you’re trying to type based on the letters that you change direction on. Check out the site for more info. If you have a WinMo phone and want to try it out – don’t worry that it’s not included in your ROM! The fine folks at xda-developers might have a working cab for you. It’s working great on my HTC TouchPro2 and I’m starting to use the built-in keyboard less and less…. which means I could be happy with an HD2 =)