(keitai-l) Mobile input devices

From: Mika Tuupola <tuupola_at_appelsiini.net>
Date: 09/26/00
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10009262125120.2050-100000@aurinko.taivas.com>
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.
	

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Mika Tuupola                      http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/
Received on Tue Sep 26 21:36:18 2000