Swype-like soft keyboard coming to next generation Sony Ericsson Android phones?

If you have tried one of the touch-and-slide text entry method Swype, SlideIt or similar methods, you will never go back to the generic Android keyboard again. The soft keyboard TouchPal pre-installed on Xperia X10 is made by MWC 2009 Mobile Innovation Award winning CooTek which we spoke to at Mobile World Congress and were given a short demo of the upcoming version of their soft keyboard solution.

Entering text on regular soft keyboards requires clicking on several soft keys in a row. It is also required that you hit the exact key for the dictionary to come up with a correct suggestion. The press-and-slide method demonstrated at Mobile World Congress by the Chinese company CooTek is much, much quicker. You are not required to slide exactly over the correct keys for a proper word suggestion. It is enough move your finger to a nearby character. The system not only predicts the current word, but also has sentence prediction and it is learing as you type.

Take a look at the video below for a demonstration how this works. The guy doing the demo has done this a million times before, so he is familiar with the user interface. But we tried it too, and it really speeds up text entries a lot. 

Is this something you would like pre-installed on your next Sony Ericsson Android phone? Feel free to leave a comment below.