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How does the web demo work? I can enter numbers but where do we see resolved words? https://foxmoss.github.io/libt9/
Why we don’t have t9 support on tv remotes??? I gotta aim and peck some bullshit or open up some app with a QR code instead. Give me T9
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If you are doing searching, then a variant can be that it does not need to predict what words you meant, but will search for all words that match the numbers you pushed. For example, if you try to search for a title and one of the words in your search is entered "223", then either "ace" or "bad" can be in that position, and if there is a title with "ace" matching in that position and a title with "bad" matching in th…
On Android, I always enjoy how the dial pad in the phone app will let you start typing in numbers and it tries to match into a name or number. My favorite one, 666, brings up "Mom" as the first result.
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Then why is a flip phone in the title? That was not specific to flip phones at all.
Because vastly more people will know what "flip phone typing" is over "T9 typing".
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I bet it just felt fast (there are lots of repeated key-hits, right?). I remember around that time (maybe a little later) I had a slide-out keyboard Samsung of some sort. I got a reputation for writing long texts, haha.
You're thinking of the inferior system that predated T-9. The whole point of T-9 was using a language-specific word frequency list so that words can be entered with just one digit per letter. The main word pairs that this often fails for are "me/of" and "no/on" (edit: other super-common words are "go/in", "he/if", and "up/us"; "am/an" isn't a problem since you usually write "I'm"); prefixes that can end with "-er" or…
Paid a sage boy to raid the pope’s home for cake goods.
But yeah, I guess that does make sense. Funny to miss such a significant thing—I was around then, but didn’t get a cellphone until the Samsung slider thing came out.
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Which makes T9 fail miserably because it works with a non-abbreviated words. Later there were adaptive versions which had an auto-populated user dictionary but that made "a blind T9ing" prone to errors.
I want to say you could add custom words no problem? But it's been a hot minute, so I might be misremembering.
Yes, the later variants both had a custom/user dictionary and could learn %he new words from the input. The latter could add the uncertainty in the input.
Why we don’t have t9 support on tv remotes??? I gotta aim and peck some bullshit or open up some app with a QR code instead. Give me T9
I can kind of understand how we got here - a fractured system of various vendors, TV makers, and customized android implementations led us to apps having their own keyboards, even if the TV offers a native on-screen keyboard, and for some reason most of those are laid out in a keypad style with A in the top-left which goes against everything the majority of users have known, even back to typewriters.
I know my comment got longwinded, it’s just…things could have and should have gotten better by now, but I’ll be arsed if I’m gonna pull out my phone to type the four letters needed to scroll to the movie I’m looking for.