Cellphones: Blindingly Fast Touchscreen Text Entry System Gets a Push By Creator of T9(gizmodo.com)

8 pointsby jbrunvor 18 Jahren4 comments

Cellphones: Blindingly Fast Touchscreen Text Entry System Gets a Push By Creator of T9

http://gizmodo.com/5047798/blindingly-fast-touchscreen-text-entry-system-gets-a-push-by-creator-of-t9

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I am new here, don't know what protocol is for duplicate (or in this case highly related) threads...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=300026

auntjemimavor 18 Jahren

Here's the main thread on swype:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=299938

scvor 18 Jahren

An iPhone app that does this came out around the time the store first launched. Does anybody remember its name?

zzzmarcusvor 18 Jahren

No, but I tried it for a couple hours and found it less than blindly fast. When it gets the word right, it's great, but I found that the extra time it took to correct errors (not my errors, but the software's bad guesses) and to enter proper nouns etc. was high enough to cancel out the benefits.