(keitai-l) Re: How fast are those Japanese thumbs ?

From: Curt Sampson <cjs_at_cynic.net> Date: 12/04/01 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112041220240.25780-100000@denkigama.nat.shibuya.blink.co.jp>

On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, [utf-8] 山科：mumlob wrote:

> By the way, how fast are those Japanese thumbs?
> I want to know that, too.
> It needs several strokes to input one character to Keitai with a thumb.
> And it needs several moments to change hiragana strings to kanji+kana strings.
> I think we cannot compare inputting speeds in a simple method......

There are also the language differences to take into account. There was
some discussion of this here earlier, in a thread entitled "Advantages
of Kanji for Keitai Communication":

    http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-09/0392.html

cjs
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