(keitai-l) Re: Mobile Phones Must Die?

A lot of the Nokia phones, including the WAP 7110, include T9 text input. I've
used this, and it greatly speeds up text input, but can be a bit fiddly when it
guesses a word wrong. There's no Japanese though...
Theres an interactive demo at http://www.t9.com/

Stephen Carter wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Renfield Kuroda" <Renfield.Kuroda@msdw.com>
> To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 7:06 PM
> Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Mobile Phones Must Die?
>
> > Stephen Carter wrote:
> > > As for an input device, that's a bit harder. After all, we're still
> using
> > > keyboards at the desk top. And even though a FEW Japanese teenagers, who
> > > seem to have little else to do, have mastered input on a Keitai keypad
> > > doesn't mean that it's a good or desirable input method,or that it will
> > > become a long-term world standard.
> >
> >
> > Not to belittle the point, but TENS OF MILLIONS of users across Japan
> > and Europe who are phenomenally proficient at inputting on a 1-key is
> > not an anomaly.
>
> Do we really know how proficient they are? I suspect people don't input very
> much with the 10-key. Perhaps if it does become the only way many people
> input, then we'll develope some kind of short hand expression like the old
> telegraph language.
>
> True, it's also amazing that people can use a QWERTY keyboard--certainly
> takes some training. And I'm always amazed at how many people type quite
> well using only two fingers on the standard keyboard. I can't do it that way
> at all, yet I wonder if the majority of people do in fact not touch type,
> but look at the keyboard and use two fingers only.
>
> > Agreed it's not THE solution, but so far it's no worse than a QWERTY
> > keyboard (itself a reasonably contested input method) and it's certainly
> > the most prolific; there are hundreds of millions of cell phones in the
> > world with 10-keys, vastly outnumbering the number of qwerty keyboards
> > in the world. That alone might mean that, even though 10-key input isn't
> > the best, it is most certainly the most popular, and therefore a defacto
> > standard...
>
> It's the most popular method for things that have ONLY 10-key input. I don't
> see people using it in situations where something else is available. Of
> course if people who have never used a "better" method learn to use a 10-key
> proficiently, then they might prefer that even at a desktop. I imagine
> someone has done an analysis on how much more effort it takes to use a
> 10-key than a standard key board, or some other device. Or perhaps it takes
> less effort, even though it takes more key strokes.
>
> Steve Carter
>
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