Tag: T9

The modern smartphone possesses the ability to surf the internet, scan retinas, fly a hovercraft and even make calls using your left hand. So, you'd think getting one of these hunks of plastic to send a sensible text would be a cinch. It's not, however. Auto-correction software for phones too often mutates a word into something completely nonsensical or embarrassing. [Ed. Note: We once had a ...

Likely inspired by the masses of people obsessed with texting, Cliff Kushler, co-inventor of T9, has one-upped himself with the release of Swype, a text-entry app now available on Android phones. Appropriately named, Swype gives you the power to swipe words into existence instead of frantically pecking at your touchscreen. With only a single instance of finger-to-screen contact, you tap the ...

It looks like the race is on to see who can offer the fastest text-entry for touchscreen phones. By now, everybody knows about Swype, which recently helped a man set a Guinness World Record for texting. But a new player is about to join this race. According to Engadget, Nuance, the company behind the hugely popular T9 predictive text functions in most phones, recently announced its T9 Trace ...

Text messaging has become ingrained as a communicative tool, and its use has skyrocketed over the past year. But, some analysts are claiming that despite texting's rapidly increasing worldwide popularity, current methods definitely tend to be ethnocentric. Multi-tap keys and predictive texting greatly aid languages whose alphabets consist of a limited number of characters or letters, but ...

According to Australian researchers, the radiation emitted from a cell phone when sending a text message is only 0.03-percent of that produced during a voice call. It seems, then, with all the risks associated with cell phone radiation, texting would obviously be a safer method of communication. The same researchers, though, claim that may not be the case. According to ABC Science, a team from ...

There are 6,912 identified languages spoken around the world. Some languages, only spoken by tiny pockets of populations, are in danger of disappearing thanks to an increasingly global society that is focused on modern western languages like English and Spanish. One way advocates believe these languages, an important part of local history and culture, can stave off extinction is with text ...