May 23, 2003

Next Word Prediction

Predictive texting allows mobile phone users to send an SMS by tapping on their keyboard only once, for each letter (instead of triple tapping), and Tegic and Eatoni are companies which provide this technology to phone manufacturers.

Now a new player claims the next leap in technology to make the lives of texters even easier is next word prediction. tx4u by AirTx should decrease the number of taps to send a text message, not only by learning new words but by learning about the way you commonly use word combinations, taking personalisation to a new level. As reported by Mercury News.