T9 Text Input is dead.

[gorcorps]

Looks cool, but pretty damn worthless for most sizes of cell screens. Iphone would work well, and maybe some larger windows mobile phones but much else is worthless for anybody with bigger hands.

 

[aesthetics]

That is awesome. What is next? It will be able to read your mind?

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: aesthetics
That is awesome. What is next? It will be able to read your mind?

They're working on it and I suppose this could be used as a component of such a system.

 

[aceO07]

I saw another video from techcrunch during their presentation. It went really poorly. It must have taken over 1.5minutes to do 7 words. I didn't listen to the audio, so I don't know if it was a demonstration or just a practice by an audience member.

 

[secretanchitman]

hate t9...i got spoiled by my treo 700p's keyboard. hence, its also why im waiting on sprint to release the htc touch pro, otherwise i would have gotten the touch diamond already...

 

[biggestmuff]

Originally posted by: rudeguy

Originally posted by: biggestmuff

Originally posted by: rudeguy
I hate predictive text and I hate touchscreens.

A qwerty keyboard is just fine for me.

Outside of Palm's Graffiti, I'll take a qwerty keyboard. I can type faster on my Treo than the demo in that video. It does look like a good alternative to trying to use pictures of keys on a screen to type.

Oh man. When we got the HTC Touch in I tried it out. That was the worst texting experience of my life.

I can't believe you said something positive about a Treo. I hated my Treo with a passion. I do miss bejewled though.

I should have mentioned the model. It's a Treo 700 with the Palm OS on it, not one of the older Handspring Treos. The qwerty keyboard is very nice and fast, but I think I like the grippy, soft buttons on my wife's Centro a little better.

 

[Corporate Thug]

I hated T9 all my life..until I learned to use it last weekend. So much for that!

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: aceO07
I saw another video from techcrunch during their presentation. It went really poorly. It must have taken over 1.5minutes to do 7 words. I didn't listen to the audio, so I don't know if it was a demonstration or just a practice by an audience member.

Just like almost anything else, I suppose there is a learning curve.

 

[JJChicken]

QWERTY > T9

 

[UncleWai]

touchscreen blows chunks in general. That display was just gadgety, it loooks pretty slow.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

I refuse to use anything touchscreen. The lack of any way to discern where yyour fingers are sucks. As well as the fact that its stupidly easy to hit two letters at once consistantly.

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: Corporate Thug
I hated T9 all my life..until I learned to use it last weekend. So much for that!

Haha. I don't like T9 myself cause I'm a little leary of applications guessing what I'm trying to type and not getting it right but I guess I should just learn T9 because it would most likely be faster than the regular old ABC method.

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: Eli
How can any of you hate T9?

I realize that you can get pretty fast at ABC typing, but there's so many more pointless keystrokes..

Seriously. I can understand having a preferance for a full keyboard, who wouldn't, but T9 is the best thing to happen to anyone having to text anything from a number pad. I find that most people who hate T9 never gave it a chance in the first place.

It can also depend on the phone's implementation of it as well. Motorola's implementation isn't the most ideal, IMO. I've become used to Nokia's, type in the letters you want then just hit * until the word appears.

 

[Crafty35a]

I don't see how anyone can claim that T9 isn't faster than the alternative. Sure, you can get extremely fast at the old method if you are sending 10,000 texts a month (seriously, wtf?), but T9 requires significantly fewer keystrokes, period. So if you're arguing that T9 is not as fast, you're saying that each keystroke takes longer than it would if you were using the standard input method. Why in the world would this be true?

 

[Krazy4Real]

I'm pretty used to t9. I like it. I had to teach it a few words, but that's about it.

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: biggestmuff

Originally posted by: rudeguy
I hate predictive text and I hate touchscreens.

A qwerty keyboard is just fine for me.

Outside of Palm's Graffiti, I'll take a qwerty keyboard. I can type faster on my Treo than the demo in that video. It does look like a good alternative to trying to use pictures of keys on a screen to type.

Yup. I prefer my Treo as well.

I have tried typing on the LG Dare and iPhone and you just can't. I have big hands/fingers and they just don't fit on a single letter very well and the phones can't get it right. With the treo I have the tactile response and am able to feel where I am and which button I'm pressing. Touchscreens for typing suck.