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What do you get when you mix Samsung’s Omnia II Android handset, the super-fast text input software of Swype, and a Swype company intern with super fast fingers?

A new Guinness World Record for texting, that’s ruddy well what, with the nimble digits of Franklin Page smashing the previous world record by five seconds and making Samsung’s Omnia II the fastest textin’ phone in the West.

And everywhere else, we guess.

In the video below, Swype’s intern Franklin Page managed to hammer out the standard Guinness test message in no less than 35.54 seconds – a huge improvement on the previous fastest-ever time of 40.91 seconds.

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Swype is currently only available on the Samsung handset for now, but is expected to come pre-loaded on other Android phones later in the year.

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