Naver has released a new Android keyboard replacement app called
Naver Smartboard (네이버 스마트보드). If you're already familiar with Google's keyboard replacer "
Gboard" then you know what to expect. Basically it offers smart replies, translations, and search content right in your chats. Here are
some of the features.
Naver SmartBoard features
Quick Search
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| Naver SmartBoard quick search example. Image: Naver |
Just like with Gboard, press the big
G, I mean N, to do a quick mini-search for things like weather, movie times, etc. No need to leave the conversation and do these things in a separate app. This is similar to how you can utilize Google Assistant in Allo or on your Pixel. Easy to embed those results in the chat after that. In the example above, a user "asks" SmartBoard if it will rain today, and a sunny result appears.
Smart Replies / Recommendations
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| Naver SmartBoard recommended search result example. Image: Naver |
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| Naver SmartBoard smart reply example. Image: Naver |
Naver SmartBoard will anaylyze your input, and offer things like predictive text replies, and recommended searches, based on the context of your conversation history, your personal commonly used phrases, and (if I read it right) some amount of web history. Of course you can also use voice input.
Emoji matching
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| Naver SmartBoard recommended emoji example. Image: Naver |
The app will analyze your text and recommend the proper emoji for you. Thinking about eating chicken tonight? It will recommend the chicken leg emoji. Welcome to the future.
Emojis, stickers, GIFs, doodles!
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| Naver SmartBoard stickers, GIFs, doodles example. Image: Naver |
Insert almost any sort of image into your chat. Because apparently we've all forgotten how to use words.
Real time translations
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| Naver SmartBoard real-time translation example. Image: Naver |
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| Naver SmartBoard real-time translation animated example. Image: Naver |
This is kind of cool. It can translate your message as you type it, letting you preview the translation as you write, without needing to open another app. You can see it in action above. The GIF is pretty large (5MB) so be aware.
My thoughts
What can I say? It's Gboard. I personally use
SwiftKey instead of Gboard, mainly because of the lack of Korean support in Gboard, and the Google Korean Input keyboard isn't worth switching for. But anything would be better than most stock keyboards, so if you're Korean, give SmartBoard a try. They also point out that any data between SmartBoard and Naver HQ is encrypted (something called HMAC? Sorry; beyond my paygrade) and run over secure https, and most prediction analysis happens on-device.
Download Naver SmartBoard
Here's the link to download Naver SmartBoard from Google Play, and two links from some 3rd party hosts in case you have any country-restriction issues:
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