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

Dvorak?

[XanC]

All these virtual keyboards are hard-coded for QWERTY, which makes even less sense for that kind of device than for a modern keyboard!

Dvorak should be an option, along with alphabetical order.

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

Re:Dvorak?

[i.of.the.storm]

This might be the optimal layout: HexInput. Or at least, it's designed to work in a similar manner to what's described.