Samsung Galaxy S Texting World Record Beaten by iPhone? Video

We’ve already seen Swype lay claim to aiding in the setting of a new speed-texting world record , but would you believe the virtual keyboard also played a role in taking the record for fastest hands-free typing into new territory? In just 83.09 seconds, Hank Torres, a quadriplegic paralyzed from the shoulders down, was able to swipe out the following: "The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world.

We have a video which promotes the Samsung Omnia 2 smartphone and the inclusion of the fast typing Swype which enables the user to send text messages faster than before.
The video last only 30 seconds but during that time we see a person using Swype on the Samsung Omnia 2 smartphone and before the video ends the narrator announces that during making the video they actually broke the Guinness World Record for texting.

If you are a follower of record breakers and own an Apple iPad you may like to know that Guinness World Records has launched a new application especially for the Apple iPad and should be available in the App Store as of the 16th of December.The new Guinness World Records: At Your Fingertips App for iPad delivers to the user a “multi-layered app” featuring and abundance of record content, colour photos and full screen videos with all images and videos and interactive content especially chosen to make the most of the Apple iPad fingertip functionality.

Are you a fast texter? Can you rattle out more words than most on your iPhone, Android device or other smartphone? Do you think you could be a contender in taking the world record for speed texting? If so then what you need to do is consider going in for the next LG Mobile World Cup, and attempt to shatter the Guinness World Record, although you’re a little late for this year and would have to use an LG device.

Every fancied the opportunity of being in the Guinness World Record Breakers book? There are many, many records breakers in the world such as ‘Lil Poison’ from New York who hold the record for the youngest professional gamer at 2-years old, or Chanel Tapper of California who holds the record for the longest tongue. Well…

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Apparently Swype, the fast way to enter text on your mobile phone will be available for Android smartphones as of today the 16th of June, although it isn’t quite clear as to which flavour of Android will be able to use the application.According to an article by Kat Hannaford of Gizmodo by way of Techcrunch, at the moment only 6 handsets support Swype but that figure is soon to increase and we can find out when Swype updates their website with the news.