Nokia Betalabs has released ‘Swype’ for Symbian touch devices. Its a new type of input method which is widely used across variety of touchsceen devices developed by Swype Inc .

Swype provides a faster and easier way to input text on any screen. With one continuous finger or stylus motion across the screen keyboard, the patented technology enables users to input words faster and easier than other data input methods—at over 40 words per minute. The application is designed to work across a variety of devices such as phones, tablets, game consoles, kiosks, televisions, virtual screens and more.

Key Features:

• Standard QWERTY keyboard layout makes Swype easy to learn
• Use a stylus or finger – Swype’s amazing input path analyzer allows you to go fast and sloppy. Just make a reasonable effort to trace through the word and Swype will do the rest
• Double Tap Editing – Make a mistake? Double tap on a word to bring up a list of other possible matches.
• Auto-Spacing
• Auto-Capitalization
• Auto Spelling Correction
• Automatic Help – Swype detects when you may be having trouble or might benefit from a particular feature and prompts you with helpful tips and instructions
• Instant access to Symbols, Numbers and Editing functions
• 65,000-word Learning Dictionary – Chances are the word you are typing is already in the Swype dictionary. If it isn’t, just tap it out once followed by a space and Swype will remember it for future use.
• New Three extra language packs added : European French, German, and Polish.  More languages will be added as they become available.

Before you install any of the new language packs, please ensure that the main Swype application is installed first, and that the phone’s Writing Language fits with one of Swype’s supported languages. Since Swype has its own language selection, the Beta Labs team recommends that you set the phone’s Writing Language to English, then use Swype to change the language dictionary in use for writing.

Head over to Nokia Beta Labs for more details & downloads.