When typing on a mobile, you have to press the same key a certain number of times to get the letter you want. If you then need another letter on that key you have to press across or wait half a second or so.

If the most common letter combinations are known (e.g. t followed by h) then the letters could be scattered to allow the fastest possible typing.

*Can anyone think of a better category?*
-- RobertKidney, Jan 01 2004

T9 predictive text input http://www.t9.com/
Acquire it. [waugsqueke, Oct 05 2004]

Not this, then? http://www.nokia.co...kia/0,,4486,00.html
Nokia 6800 with built-in qwerty keyboard. [st3f, Oct 05 2004]

Get a phone with predictive text.
-- silverstormer, Jan 01 2004


what [silver] said.
-- jonthegeologist, Jan 01 2004


I hate predictive text. It doesn't work, names especially. A QWERTY, like on a Blackberry, is actually much faster, especially with names.

That said, I think there's a Nokia that does this.
-- Baker^-1, Jan 01 2004


Pretty much every US provider has a BlackBerry mobile phone now that has a qwerty keyboard, pocket PC phones have those as well.
-- theircompetitor, Jan 01 2004


Maybe putting Qwerty in the title was misleading. I don't want a qwerty layout as such, but one designed to be the most efficient use of around 12 keys.

Hmm, now playing around with predictive text. Suprised I haven't played with it before, but then I thought it was more like the way internet explorer completes urls. It seems to be good, but I still think an adjusted layout could be useful for people who dislike predictive text (not sure if I'm in that category at the moment).
-- RobertKidney, Jan 01 2004


I'm not keen on predictive text. I used to be able to text one-handed without looking at the screen -- something I was able to learn easily because the phone had an ordered layout.
-- st3f, Jan 01 2004


Categories? How does 'Product: Cell Phone: Messaging: Input' suit you?
-- st3f, Jan 01 2004


Bleh, cell phone. Oddly enough they are never called that by anyone I know. Thanks.

And no, I'm thinking of an ordinary mobile phone keypad, but with the letters all jumbled up (it sounds like such a good idea when I say it like that, don't you think?).
-- RobertKidney, Jan 01 2004



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