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

Yeah.

[Runefox]

Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all

Isn't QWERTY less efficient

[LuminaireX]

I'm sorry. Perhaps I've forgotten my history, but wasn't QWERTY originally invented to decrease efficiency so users wouldn't jam the keys? Moving cell phones to Qwerty will make it easier for cell phone users to type only because more people are used to a standard that should have been abandoned decades ago