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<< Previous | Next >> February 14, 2011Nuance offers mobile users non-typing choicesDragon Dictation software maker Nuance launched a mobile application in Europe on Monday that lets users speak, trace or handwrite instructions to their phone instead of typing. Animation Artist reports.
Read more. January 5, 2011The man who reinvented the keyboard -- twiceCNN on Cliff Kushler who invented a cell phone technology called T9 or predictive text, which helped launch the text messaging phenomenon. And what he's up to next.
Read more and watch video demo. September 2, 2010Textees
Spotted on Switched, Textees. Though you would think otherwise, apparently they make texting easier. July 13, 2010Stylus Pen for iPhone to Debut in Japan
Linksinternational is launching a stylus pen for the iPhone, called Ozaki iFinger M, in Japan on July 17. [via Tokyomango] June 21, 2010Phone Software Takes the Taps Out of Typing
Read full article. December 27, 2009Swype vs. Tiki'NotesSwype, the new text input technology that allows mobile phone users to enter text with the "swype" of a finger rather than the traditional tap is being challenged by a French startup called Tiki'Labs says that its Tiki'Notes text input technology is actually faster. And it produced this YouTube video to prove it, comparing Swype's keyboard and the Tiki6Keys' keyboard. [via TechFlash] December 13, 2009A question of character
Typing text into a mobile phone is fiddly enough in English. How do handsets and their users manage in other languages that have more characters than Latin-based ones? An interesting read from The Economist November 22, 2009Samsung Omnia II to launch with Swype's "Genius Texting"mocoNews.net reports that the new Samsung Omnia II will include Swype's input method that they are calling “Genius Texting.”
See Swype demo video her. January 3, 2009CleverTexting: A new predictive texting technologyCleverTexting is a new texting technology that predicts letters as you type. It is based on the statistical nature of a language and is dictionary less. ... Developed in India, CleverTexting introduces a paradigm shift into how we use the mobile keypad, because in this model, there are no letters printed on the keypad. You only look at the screen and type, as the screen keeps making predictions that you choose from in single keystrokes. The experience is new and after a small while you are already typing very fast, always with a single keystroke. No multi-tapping, no wrong word suggestions. No changing modes. CleverTexting also offers to compress your SMS so you can pack in more text into your same message for the same cost. They are not sure if they are the first ones to be offering such an implementation of SMS compression. November 6, 2008An iPhone keyboard?
Spotted on the Inquirer, what claims to be an iPhone keyboard. "The BTKeyMini is a small, Bluetooth keyboard, designed to fold up and carry in your bag. September 14, 2008Swype. The next generation for text inputCheck out Swype, the next generation input for text messaging created by the same people who brought us T9 predictive text messaging, included in most phone models. Soon to be released on the market. "Swype will let you swipe your finger across the keyboard when writing. No more lifting your fingers, no more pressing the wrong letters. It will even have support for stylus too, so you will be kind of ice-skating on the surface of your handset. There’s predictive text too and there are lots of editing choices." [via MobileTopSoft ] August 25, 2008Air Traffic Controller Text Messages Airplane to Safe LandingSwitched has picked up on ban amazing story first reported by the Irish Times, whereby an Irish Air traffic controller helped guide a seriously malfunctioning plane to a safe landing - via text message. "In an effort to establish any form of contact with someone back on the ground, he phoned a controller at the Cork airport and spoke only momentarily of his troubles before losing voice signal. The quick-thinking controller decided to switch up his conversation method to texting, eventually providing sufficient details to safely guide the pilot in." July 24, 2008Virtual iPhone keypad button being developed
Newlaunches reports on a virtual iPhone keypad, where a virtual button will imitate the vibrations felt when one uses an actually key. Developed by researchers from the University of Glasgow's Department of Computing Science, the virtual keypad will enable the user will to feel the edges of each key and will be able to identify where each key is without checking visually. March 23, 2007Nokia attempts to patent rotating numeric pad
Nokia has filed for a US patent for a mobile phone with a rotating numeric keyboard, writes The Register. "The numeric pad can turn round to retain the correct orientation when the handset it flipped into landscape mode. The application details what looks like a standard candybar handset. The clever bit comes when you rotate it through 90°: the screen slides up to reveal a QWERTY keyboard. ... Nokia original filed its patent applicaton back in September 2005, but the filing was updated yesterday." March 20, 2007Samsung vows to improve SMS experienceAccording to Engadget Mobile, Samsung wants the text messaging interfaces - like T9 and Motorola's iTap - and create a Gmail-like "text threaded conversation" using a new guided process for in-phone text messaging services. "Samsung's new patent includes processes like mapping phone numbers from incoming text messages to stored pictures of the sender and creating SMS threading that emulates an IM interface. " Read more December 8, 2006The Keyboard Bag
[via Gizmodo] October 12, 2006Font Text Designing Booming in South Korea
... "Some of the more popular fonts are those based on the handwriting of celebrities. These "star fonts" took two years to plan and develop, and have been in service since autumn of last year for the Internet and will be available for mobile platforms later this year. Fans of actresses Lee Hyo-lee and Moon Geun-young, or rock star Yoon Do-hyun can choose to "write" like their idols. ... Pyun Suk-hoon, head of Yoon Design, one of Korea's largest commercial typography-developing graphics companies, said that these trends show that fonts are now considered a fashion. Mr. Pyun said that since mobile phones are becoming more technologically advanced, in the future we won't even have to make separate Web fonts because digital platforms will support graphics with fine detail." September 14, 2006Fastap Keypad Goes FashionSlashphone reports on some new mobile phone keypad concepts from Digital Wireless' Fastap. The new Fastap keyboard integrates letter, number and punctuation keys around the standard numeric keypad on a mobile phone.
July 24, 2006Qwerty keyboard for cell phones
Eatoni, a comapny which develops software-assisted keyboards for handheld devices, are offering a new EQ3 Qwerty keyboard for mobile phones, available for free for the Nokia 668x range of phones. [via favorite Red Ferret] July 18, 2006Eleksen rolls out much expected fabric keyboard
The washable wireless fabric keyboar contains a 63-key Qwerty layout, and can be rolled up to form a compact bundle measuring just 48 by 126 by 32mm when not in use." Related: February 15, 2006Enhanced keyboard for Sony Ericsson 3G phone
Sony Ericsson showing off its M600 at 3GSM, a 3G e-mail phone with a qwerty keyboard. From the BBC's slideshow: "In pictures: Barcelona 3GSM show". December 18, 2005Digital Stylus for cellphones
How cool is that? You can handwrite your text message instead of tapping away. "The setup consists of a “base station,” (actually just a chip) which can either be embedded in the phone or attached as a peripheral, and a special powered stylus that relays its position to the base station." [via Engadget] November 3, 2005Samsung Releases Keyboard Phone in U.S.
"This is Samsung’s second phone with a keyboard. The first, the SCH-i730, was described by Business Week as suitable for stock trading. Lee Ki-tae, the head of Samsung’s IT business, said the product was more user-friendly for customers who send frequent text messages." October 14, 2005Predictive text firm tackles mobile browsing problemNetimperative, mobile software firm Tegic Communications has launched a new mobile phone interface solution that could make browsing the web via mobiles a much easier task. "The service has the potential to make browsing the Web via mobile a far less cumbersome task than before, as users will not have to make so many keypad entires to find what they want online. " October 5, 2005VPen: The write stuff?
"VPen connects to numerous host devices using Bluetooth, which makes it compatible with a wide variety of hosts. “Instead of clumsily entering SMS or other text through the tiny key pad of the GSM, or scribbling into your PDA, VPen allows users to write naturally on any type of surface,” explains project partner Alberto Zanettin of Philips Consumer Electronics. “The device uses an exclusive handwriting recognition software that processes characters written in many languages.” October 1, 2005You've heard of touch screens now check out touch keys
Phoneyworld reports on a new type of cell phone with a touch screen keypad, being developped in Japan by both NTT DoCoMo and Mitsubishi. July 15, 2005New-age keyboard: Trace, don't write
"Shark (Shorthand-Aided Rapid Keyboarding) is an advanced pen-based shorthand method that allows users to input words into mobile devices by tracing them letter by letter on a virtual keyboard. Instead of tapping independently on four virtual keys with a stylus to spell "word," for example, consumers would put the stylus on "w" and then carve a continuous trail all the way to "d". Users initially hunt for letters to write words, but the idea is that they fairly rapidly start to memorize the shape of common words and word components--and therefore, their dependence on visual guidance decreases. The computer assesses the user's final pattern, interprets it as a word from its database and turns it into text on the screen." Reading phone text one word at a time
"The technique, known as Rapid Serial Visual Presentation, or RSVP, makes up for the tiny screens on mobile phones by presenting just one word at a time in the center of the screen for a fraction of a second before moving on to the next word. As a result, each word is far easier to read than is the case with standard presentations, in which a sentence or two of much smaller type scroll across the screen at a time. In a demo version of the software, dubbed BuddyBuzz, the user gets to decide how fast the text scrolls. At its fastest, the words fly far faster than a reader can sound them out. But those who learn to read words without pronouncing them in their heads can actually read as many as 1,000 words a minute, making it potentially far faster than traditional methods of scrolling. June 22, 2005LG Develops New Touch Pad Cell Phones
"The company said it is like using the touch pad on personal computers. The spokesman added that the touch-pad technology is composed of a sophisticated sensor and embedded software that converts the finger movements of users into responsive control capabilities. The sensor and the software can also recognize a user's fingerprints, a function that will ensure enhanced security. ... "This technology will change the rules of the mobile phone game in the not-so-distant future by creating a compelling new user interface," LG executive vice president Steven Ahn predicted. June 2, 2005Morse texter for Series 60 phonesFollowing stories which made the news, on contests pitting Morse code against text messaging - and coming out ahead (morse code is faster), (cf Morse Code Still Beats SMS and Morse Code Versus Text Messaging on Jay Leno's Tonight Show), Russel Beattie and Paul have come up with a Morse Texter app for Series 60 phones. "It simulates telegraph text entry by mapping dots and dashes to the phone's arrow keys." [via Engadget]
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