It's going to be very interesting to see just how efficient the 10-key
numerical pad can be made to do text entry in different languages, and how
it may actually change the language--and as well what sort of input
device/method will come to dominate in the next few years.
For now we're going to see a lot of experimentation, and I'm going to hope
for something better than the 10-key to evolve. In the meantime, it should
keep all our brains active constantly retraining to take advantage of the
latest improvements. I like that toggle--the sort of thing we've been doing
for years with the Fn key on pc keyboards.
Steve Carter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Ulevik" <EUlevik@spoton.com>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 9:46 AM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: keitai-l Digest V2 #15
> From: Zimran Ahmed [mailto:zimran@creativegood.com]
> 10-key seems fine for many people. I have also seen some nice
> implementations where the phone has a toggle at the top that reduces
> text-entry on a 10-key to a single key entry (2=A, toggle up + 2 =B,
> toggle down + 2 = C). Difficult text entry has not seemed to slow down
> any of the millions of avid texters in Europe or Asia, and improving text
> entry on small devices is *not* going to help them in the US. there are
> other, more pressing problems.
>
> --
>
> Modern Nokia phones have an in-built dictionary. If the word is wrong
press
> '*' for the next word. So for 'quake' instead of 778825533 you only need
> enter 78253*.
>
> This works very well, keeping it to almost one key per letter.
>
> Regards,
>
> Eric Ulevik
>
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>
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Received on Tue Jan 23 03:50:35 2001