iPhone Keyboard Leads to Typso

jfruhlinger writes "One of the selling points of the iPhone was its revolutionary touch-screen full keyboard. But a study has shown that text messages sent from iPhones contain significantly more typso than messages from phones with other kinds of keyboards — and aren't entered any faster."

Comments

Re:Really?

[Fluffy Bunnies]

Surprisingly, the study found that iPhone texters don't improve with experience. The researchers also asked users in the other groups to send text messages using the iPhone. These novice iPhone users made mistakes at the same rate as people who have owned iPhones for at least one month, the study found.

Emphasis mine.

Re:But does it include that the spell checker fixe

[toleraen]

From the study

If the iPhone corrective text feature made an improper correction, this was still counted as a single error even if multiple letters were changed. Sounds like they were using it.

Re:I hate the l337 txt culture

[caffeinemessiah]

hu kars so lng as u cn reed it? Seriously, I've been seeing typing like this appear in blogs recently.

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