I feel the opposite.. I can see how a honeycomb structure might make it actually easier for swipers, since you have more keys connected around each key.. in fact, it seems (from what they say in the website) that they have mathematically arranged the keys to minimize the average distance traveled from one key to the next. So I feel this is actually meant for swipers (they even say in the video that the connections are more "swipe friendly").

But as someone who is comfortable using 2 thumbs (holding the phone with 2 hands when typing), travel distance between letters is not as big a deal, I can type 2 keys from opposite ends of the keyboard easily and in an instant. This does not look like a more efficient design for me, specially considering that the most used keys appear to be in the center, which would require stretching further the thumbs.

[–] icelimit@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh wait does this also have swiping?

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

From their FAQ:

How did Keybee Keyboard integrate the swipe gesture ?

The swipe is the primary user interaction gesture on touchscreen devices, for this reason in Keybee Keyboard the structure, the arrangement and the linking of common word groups are designed to make the swipe easy and fast. Some syllables and some words can be inserted through a simple combination of tap & swipe (we call it twipe) greatly reducing the number of touches for typing a text. For now the twipe is limited to the adjacent keys. Keybee Keyboard is swipe friendly.

"For now the twipe is limited to the adjacent keys" ... I'm not sure what that means, but my guess is that all keys are pressed along the swipe and you can't skip keys in-between without raising your finger.. so I guess the style of swiping might be different, something in between swipe and tapping.

[–] icelimit@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for looking it up for me. That's going to be a little weird to get words any longer than 4 letters.