Latest SwiftKey beta brings back the comma, promotes voice-to-text

SwiftKey, recipients of the prestigious 2011 Android Central Editor's Pick for third-party keyboard, today unleashed a new beta version of the SwiftKey 3 keyboard that, ahem, fixes a few things in the UI department. Most notably, the comma key has resurfaced, with the voice-to-text microphone as its secondar function, so we're not going to complain too much.

Also of note in this beta update:

• Improved the UI: there is now a dedicated comma key, and the <123> key is now in the bottom-left corner. 
• Refined the Smart Punctuation pop-up.
• Reintroduced the Long-press duration setting.
• Improved Smart Space functionality.
• Further reduced lag on some devices.
• Fixed a number of bugs, including the missing decimal point in the numpad and the "What's New" dialog popping up all the time.

In addition to being the 2011 Android Central Editor's Pick for third-party keyboards, SwiftKey also won a Webby this week, which is pretty close in prestige. (Note to Android Central editors: Give away gongs.)

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