Next Generation T9 Keyboard Technology

Iddo Genuth writes "Cliff Kushler, the inventor of the T9 keyboard technology for numeric keypads, has developed a new alphanumeric entry technology for touch-screen laptops and Smartphone devices. This latest technology, named Swype, works with an on-screen QWERTY keyboard similar to ones found on Windows Mobile and the iPhone. The difference from the usual method of typing in the letters is that a finger or stylus is used to slide in the first letter, then without lifting the finger, the user continues writing the entire word. Only once the word is completed can the finger be lifted off. According to the developers, this leads to a much faster way of 'typing,' or as we might call it soon, 'swiping.'"

Comments

An entire generation will be thinking

[Anonymous Coward]

"Swyper no swyping"!

swipe post

[Anonymous Coward]

first swipe

What Google thinks of Swype

[Animats]

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OK, back to the drawing board on product name.

Re:Dvorak?

[Anthony_Cargile]

Actually for this thing, there's probably a whole new layout that's optimal. (That's an exercise for the reader to invent.)

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Re:bleh

[Ethanol-fueled]

Ugh. I'll never code another stack after reading this :P

Re:bleh

[Anonymous Coward]

I usually dislike people who don't use T9;

Holy crap, you are an idiot!

Re:Dvorak?

[MichaelSmith]

I wonder why they didn't call it ZVCHWK?