Fleksy

Fleksy was first released on iOS in July 2012. As we turn Fleksy into a free app 8 months later, we feel we are starting an exciting new chapter in our story, and we take some time to explain our decision.

Fleksy started from our own frustration when typing on today’s touch-screen devices – a frustration shared by two thirds of smartphone users today. Right from the start, we felt that typing was one of the functions that made smartphones feel not so smart.

We set the bar really high – a typing system that is so intuitive, you don’t have to always look at the screen to type. Just as you do on your laptop. And thus Fleksy was born.

We looked for a market to launch our technology to – a group that we felt would most benefit from our inventions, and arguably a group of users that would challenge us to keep innovating until we deliver on our promise.  So we launched an app for blind users.

In a space of a just a few months, our users have propelled us from an accessibility app to being recognized as a mainstream technology and one of the biggest innovations to come to mobile devices in a while.

Firstly, we want to say a big and honest thank you.

We have always seen our keyboard as a universal technology, and as something that can help millions of users be more productive in their daily lives. We are today very happy to see that we are well on track on this mission, and we are working hard to integrate our technology in the next generation of hardware and software to come.

We realize that a good virtual keyboard is something users expect to be integrated on their device and be available in every application. This is by far the biggest request from our iOS users, and one that we can unfortunately not provide until each platform we target supports such functionality.

In our effort to bring Happy Typing to even more users, what we can do is make Fleksy on iOS free for everyone. We feel that making Fleksy part of the daily lives of many more people will help us continue to showcase how smartphones can be made both more accessible and useful for everyone.

Your App Store reviews, tweets, feedback messages, support, and advocacy can help us achieve this. Please, keep it up - there’s even a button in the app to do that!

We will continue to innovate and research, as well as support and update the Fleksy iOS app in the way you’ve come to expect from us. We stay fully committed to the iOS platform.

And as a final thought, we wanted to thank all those users who have downloaded and purchased Fleksy to date. We would have not been able to create or support the technology without your help, let alone expand our efforts to bring it to the hands of many more users.

If you haven’t experienced eyes-free typing, try Fleksy. We think you will never look back.

Thank you, again, from all of us here in San Francisco.

Happy Typing!

The Fleksy Team

http://fleksy.com

San Francisco, January 31 2013. Fleksy, the revolutionary keyboard technology  has been named 1 of 8 finalists for the SxSW Interactive Accelerator competition! 

Chosen over more than five hundred companies and web-based products as one of the 8 most innovative, Syntellia will be showcasing Fleksy during the fifth annual SXSW Interactive on Monday and Tuesday, March 11 and 12 at the Hilton Austin Downtown. 

Syntellia’s revolutionary keyboard technology, Fleksy, is a typing system for touch-screens, powerful enough you can type without even looking at the screen. Showcased at CES this January as a Design and Engineering Award honoree, Fleksy recently announced its Android beta, gathering over 5,000 beta tester applicants within a few hours of the announcement.

Syntellia’s CEO and co-founder Kostas Eleftheriou commented “Typing is one of the biggest frustrations of touch-screen users today, and Fleksy is the first real solution to the problem. We are delighted to have been selected as an SXSW Interactive Accelerator Finalist, and to be given the opportunity to showcase our technology to a mass market audience”. 

About Syntellia, Inc.

Inspired by the application of artificial intelligence in everyday technology, Syntellia was formed by entrepreneurs with a successful track record to bring disruptive innovation to computing and mobile markets. The company’s flagship product Fleksy revolutionizes typing on smartphones through patented predictive text technology. Syntellia’s autocorrect engine and interface are so powerful and intuitive that visually impaired users have been able to type as easily as sighted people through Fleksy on a touch screen device. For more information please visit www.syntellia.com.

Fleksy gets updated for the first time in 2013! 

- Fleksy now speaks Spanish! Head over to iPhone Settings, then Fleksy to switch languages. Needs app restart to take effect.

- Greatly improved accuracy on iPhone 5 and iPad mini. Ever typed “How ate you?”, we all have! No more (smile). Will be on all devices in next update.

- Reorganized Fleksy’s Settings layout in the Settings application.

- Fixed the “Reply link and signature jargon” bugs. Features work as they should on all devices again.

- Fixed “Export Dictionary” bug. The button used to inform that the dictionary was empty, even if that wasn’t the case.

- Visual upgrades to match our new websites and better suit our identity.

Thank you for using Fleksy and diligently providing us with awesome feedback; It helps us make a better Fleksy, so keep it coming!

Get the update now and stay tuned for more coming soon.

Happy typing!