Keyboard to a Man's Heart: a touch keyboard that works?

Swype just launched at TechCrunch50. It provides a way to more quickly use a keyboard on a touchscreen. You can imagine that I am impressed. It looks amazing and definitely has potential, in my mind to remove the 'it doesn't have a keyboard' complaint that I have about the iPhone. I previously wrote:

I really like having a physical keyboard. I haven't used the iPhone keyboard that much, but I do have some difficulty with it (though I'm sure I could get used to it). What makes me nervous about it is that in my effort to type more quickly, as I move my fingers to type, I would hit every key as though I dragged them along the keyboard. I haven't tried this, so I don't know, but I could imagine that I would have to lift my fingers a bit more and that would annoy me (though this has to be slightly insane on my part)

So, now that Swype has come around and literally encouraged me to drag my finger across the keyboard, this could be gone as a complaint. I could see it still being a bit slower than my two thumbs slapping at the keyboard on my blackberry.

Check out the video demo on their website (which is way cooler than this one I've embedded below).

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