Death of the Cell Phone Keypad As We Know It?

An anonymous reader writes, "According to a CNet article, two companies called Mobience and Nuance have created viable and possibly better alternatives to the standard cell phone keypad. 'Mobience, which is based in South Korea, has redesigned the ABC and Qwerty key layout, and come up with MobileQwerty. It's essentially the same three-letters-per-key system as the standard mobile keypad layout, but the letters have been rearranged in a Qwertyesque way to increase efficiency.' The other system developed by Nuance is a mobile speech platform that turns speech into text and replaces the keypad altogether. I was skeptical at first but the video of Nuance's software vs. Ben Cook, the ex world texting champion, is undeniably impressive."

Comments

Re:Umm....QUERTY isn't for efficiency

[wiz31337]

Umm... Its QWERTY, not QUERTY. Didn't typing the U slow you down?

Re:Qwertyesque way?

[JabberWokky]

It's true! The QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down typing... it was because when fleeing from the killer with a hook, and you were hiding in the sewers you'd not want the giant alligators to hear you typing. While nowadays you have to text your babysitter to make sure she didn't microwave the baby.

...and other urban legends...

--
Evan

Re:Qwertyesque way?

[russellh]

Obviously, everyone knows their QWERTY a lot better than they know their ABCs.