For those of you who have been wishing that your Nokia S60v5 touch device provided you with a soft QWERTY like many have been drooling over in the Opera Mobile 10 BETA Browser GUI, it has arrived in the form of SlideIT BETA.

I downloaded it and tried it on my N97 as soon as I found out about it and I've not been disapointed. For me the only downsides as yet are the small touch keys when compared with the default phone "style" keypad, a fixed colour scheme for the keypad and loss of the Contacts, OVI Contacts, Groups tabs in Contacts when the SlideIT keyboard is enabled. Otherwise it's a nice little addition to any S60v5 device.

NOTE// The video is shown on a Windows Mobile touch device, but the opertaion and appearance is the same on Nokia S60 touch devices.

The main features of the application include:

• Predictive Text

SlideIT BETA includes powerful prediction and disambiguation capabilities.

Just start tapping the desired word and it is quickly displayed, along with other likely solutions.

• On/Off line correction

SlideIT corrects some online spelling errors and Offline corrections can be performed by selecting a word in the editor and choosing one of the displayed alternatives.

• Graffiti

A powerful, universal Graffiti function recognises digits and special characters. Graffiti motion can be combined with sliding motion as well as tapping.

In the landscape mode, the Graffiti area is located in the main layout. Therefore, there is no need to change the layout mode when writing digits or special characters.

• Shortcuts (abreviations)

For instance, when you slide or tap “LMK”, ‘let me know’ is displayed in the editor.

Not only does SlideIT have a long list of builtin shortcuts, but the user can add to or delete from the list to personalise it.

• Multilanguage

SlideIT supports Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and of course English.

The keyboard is provided with primary and secondary languages, and the user can switch between them at any time.

Users have the option to change the primary or secondary languages by loading other language packs.

More supported languages will be introduced soon and will include alphabetical and non- alphabetical languages (oriental languages).

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Obi said:

	Thanks! This looks like it will solve one of my biggest complaints about this phone!
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December 06, 2009
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MarkoLopez said:

	SlideIT keyboard is amazing! Amazing !!! Thanks a lot. This is the best application ever seen. Work on my Nokia 5800 xm last firmware. Tested with SMS Favorited. Thank you! This should make things much easier I think
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December 07, 2009
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Obi said:

Not as good as I initially thought... Not only are the keys really small, they seem to be downright inaccurate at times. I make far fewer mistakes on the Opera Mobile keyboard. And that predictive text is a pain - how can I just turn it off for good? Also, when I have the SlideIT keyboard enabled, the N97 physical keyboard doesn't work right anymore. The reason I downloaded this is that I would like to be able to have Qwerty when I have the slider open or closed...not only when it's closed. I hate to sound so negative, but I'm not using this application anymore. I appreciate the effort put into it, though.

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December 12, 2009
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Randi Fredington said:

	Yes the name is Dasur SlideIT I just tried this one yesterday, its nice and works pretty smooth!! Check it out then: http://www.mobiletextinput.com...lideIT.php
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December 27, 2009
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Alvas said:

	SlideIT on Anroid look this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=229U0ZYPum8
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December 29, 2009
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Mikee said:

	Where to download? Hey, Where can I download it? Thanks
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January 01, 2010
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r4wmunt34q said:

SmartTouch for S6O 5th Hi guys, I dont know if you have made a review of SmartTouch for S60 5th, but you definately should. Here is a quick demonstration video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOo0ur6L_nk. Homepage is http://soft.mobile-master.org/ (Russian, use Google translate to translate). I made the latest version work on my N97 with my Widcomm driven Bluetooth USB adapter. You have to install Python first, then Python shell script, and then SmartTouch, restart the phone everytime you end an installation. If you need any more help, contact me at my e-mail address. But best of this all, this application is FREE!!! And works like a charm, you can even switch slideshow slides with it!

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January 14, 2010
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r4wmunt34q said:

	Link violated by a full stop The link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOo0ur6L_nk
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January 14, 2010
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Guni said:

	SlideIT on OVI SlideIT is now on OVI with a new version http://store.ovi.com/content/24305?clickSource=search
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February 16, 2010
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