http://www.eatoni.com/
makes a competitor to Tegic T9 which
has some nice features like minimal
footprint and better error handling.
Cheers, Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mika Tuupola" <tuupola@appelsiini.net>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 1:36 PM
Subject: (keitai-l) Mobile input devices
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Renfield Kuroda wrote:
>
> > Also, intelligent technologies like Tegic's T9 make text input a breeze
on
> > 10keys; automatic type completion and word learning work really well in
> > several languages across the globe.
>
> Havent tried it in any other languages, but in Finnish it
> is _really_ frustrating. It of course forses you to write
> grammatically correct words (which are quite long in finnish)
> and seems to confuse most of the words of 'spoken' language.
>
> Concerning the input devices for mobile phones. I would
> place my bets on one hand keyboards. Not those desktop
> ones like
>
> http://www.infogrip.com/bat.htm
>
> but one converted to fit into your semiopen fist. So you could
> chord (one hand typing is sometises referred as 'chording'.
> Chording means simultaneously pressing two or more buttons
> to 'type' or 'chord' one letter) with one hand leaving the
> other one free for other purposes. You could walk aroung
> with you mobile typing at the same time.
>
>
> --
> Mika Tuupola http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/
>
>
Received on Tue Sep 26 21:57:51 2000