Acer Ships Swype across Its Global Android Smartphone Portfolio
March 03 2015 - 08:00AM
Business Wire
Supporting More than 70 Languages, Nuance
Swype Keyboard now Default Keyboard for Acer Android Smartphones
Shipping in EMEA, South Asia and Central and South America
Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced it
has signed a multi-year agreement with Acer to ship Nuance’s Swype
predictive input keyboard on its lineup of Android smartphones
shipping in Europe, Asia, and Central and South America. Swype lets
users trace, tap, and write in over 70 languages.
Swype has been deployed on more than one billion devices around
the world, and is the most personal, powerful and customizable
predictive input keyboard for Android. Swype’s first-to-market
continuous touch keyboard lets people quickly and effortlessly
glide their finger from one letter to the next to input text – or
simply tap or handwrite letters, numbers and symbols. With Swype’s
predictive capabilities, words and phrases appear as users input
text with personal language models that become familiar with a
user's vocabulary.
“By integrating Swype, we are providing our smartphone users
with a highly sophisticated keyboard that supports many languages
around the world,” said Wayne Ma, Vice President of Acer Smartphone
Business Group. “The cooperation with Nuance has allowed us to
offer customers a unique and compelling user experience in our
highest growth established and emerging markets – and is
well-aligned with our vision for the best possible user experience
the market has to offer.”
“Acer is evolving its Android portfolio to provide its diverse
user base with a keyboard that is versatile to meet the needs of
any user,” said Dan Faulkner, senior vice president, Nuance Mobile.
“Consumers are able to quickly trace or tap a text message, email
or status update – hunting and pecking is a thing of the past.”
Availability
Swype is now shipping on Acer’s Liquid S1/ S2/ X1/ Jade/ Jade S/
E3/ E600/ E700 Android devices. To learn more: visit
http://www.acer.com.
Swype is a part of Nuance’s portfolio of voice, touch and
natural language understanding innovations that are defining a new
generation of intelligent systems and personal assistant
technologies. With Nuance technology, people experience more
humanized interactions with the world’s best phones, tablets,
computers, cars, TVs, apps and services from leading manufacturers
and operators.
To learn more visit www.swype.com, or follow us on Twitter:
@Swype, @NuanceMobile or @NuanceInc.
About Nuance Communications, Inc.Nuance Communications,
Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) is a leading provider of voice and language
solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its
technologies, applications and services make the user experience
more compelling by transforming the way people interact with
devices and systems. Every day, millions of users and thousands of
businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications. For more
information, please visit www.nuance.com.
About AcerEstablished in 1976, Acer is a hardware +
software + services company dedicated to the research, design,
marketing, sale and support of innovative products that enhance
people's lives. Acer's product offering includes PCs, displays,
projectors, servers, tablets and smartphones — tools our customers
need to explore beyond limits and experience more. Acer employs
7,400 people and ranks No. 4 for total PCs globally (IDC 2013).
Revenues for 2013 reached US$12.02 billion. Please visit
www.acer.com for more information.
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