I need to try swype, but I bought the Droid 3 specifically for the tactile keyboard. My big thing is that I don't look at the keyboard while I'm inputting, and I have yet to see a non-tactile method that can accommodate that.

I have yet to see a non-tactile method that can accommodate that.

I've found I can look away when I Swype, FWIW. I know about where all the letters are, and you don't have to hit all the right ones to get the word.

I don't know what to say if you had a 50% failure rate--right off the bat I was in the high 90s. If it doesn't work for your fingers, it doesn't work. But there's been no incentive for me to learn to tap type with regularity, especially on a small keyboard. My accuracy was higher from sentence one.

Sure, but is one-handed swyping really faster than good two-thumb tapping?

When you only have one hand free, you can't two-thumb tap, NOW CAN YOU.

I've found I can look away when I Swype, FWIW.

I haven't tried that yet.

The only times I get a lot of errors are if I'm in bed, so lying on my side, or if I'm on the train and things are really jostly. But the program has a learning curve - your first twenty minutes playing with it it can't really anticipate you.

Oh! Having the iPad means I finally get how people keep getting those freaky autocorrects. On the android platform, autocorrect is opt-in - if it thinks you made it mistake it suggests what it thinks is right, but you have to choose to use it. I find it a pain in the ass to adapt to the opt-out that iPhone/iPad uses.

On the android platform, autocorrect is opt-in

That's not globally true. On the Swype for Honeycomb, for instance, it's opt out. However, I found it much more obvious about how to opt out than on the iPod, where I was actually picking the correction the first few times.

brenda, you can click the x when it autocorrects to reject the correction.

I figured that out, but it's kind of a pain since it means I need to be checking the screen all the time while i'm typing.

My version of the android keyboard is definitely opt-out. I get the same autocorrect problems I had with my iPhone, though at least I also get multiple autocorrect options shown, on the rare occasions I'm paying enough attention to choose one.

I haven't compared it to Android, but iOS seems to learn pretty quickly which "typos" are actually words I want to spell (names and curses mostly), so I find the autocorrect mostly helpful. (Until it's not, of course. My phone seems smarter in that regard than my iPad, but maybe that's just because I've been using it longer.)

Oh yeah, I'm a big fan of autocorrect in general on both platforms. It definitely helps more than it hurts - it's just when it corrects something you typed right and you have to redo, it's annoying.