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Resurrecting flip phone typing as a Linux driver

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Re: Resurrecting flip phone typing as a Linux driver

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Post by nmstoker »

kfarr wrote: post #17
jaffa2 wrote: post #4

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Huh? The great thing about T9 (certainly on the Nokia 3210 and 8210) back in the day was you could type messages fast with few k/s without looking. As long as you had enough experience to know the word combos. Ive never found a t9 system as good as the Nokia implementation. In some respects its better than qwerty for short messages. And don’t get me started on apples fundamentally broken auto correct system. People d…

I remember it would always default to book instead of cool

A mate would regularly ask if I fancied a "riot" - was always disappointed when it turned out he was actually after a drink ("pint"!)

Re: Resurrecting flip phone typing as a Linux driver

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Post by jimmaswell »

akdev1l wrote: post #14

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've discovered you can just plug a keyboard and even mouse into smart TV's. Get a wireless keyboard with a trackpad on it and you barely need the remote anymore. The Windows key even brings me to the home screen by default on my LG C1.

Re: Resurrecting flip phone typing as a Linux driver

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Post by jimmaswell »

phatskat wrote: post #50
akdev1l wrote: post #14

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’t stand TV keyboard input, it’s wildly frustrating. I’d be happy even with “abc” style, T9 would be even better ofc. 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…

Have you tried plugging a usb keyboard into your TV? It's always worked for me. My lifelong habit of connecting keyboards/mice to random devices to see what happens has been overall fruitful - hell, even the Wii supported keyboards iirc. Used my Android to test an Apple Magic Mouse at a yardsale recently too.

Re: Resurrecting flip phone typing as a Linux driver

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Post by arcanemachiner »

akdor1154 wrote: post #45
wildzzz wrote: post #36

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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.

This feature is missing the final 20% in an infuriating way - it doesn't match characters with accents, so i can't use it to find my family.

Maybe you could add an alternate name for each contact without the diacritics?

Re: Resurrecting flip phone typing as a Linux driver

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Post by phatskat »

jimmaswell wrote: post #53
phatskat wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can’t stand TV keyboard input, it’s wildly frustrating. I’d be happy even with “abc” style, T9 would be even better ofc. 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…

Have you tried plugging a usb keyboard into your TV? It's always worked for me. My lifelong habit of connecting keyboards/mice to random devices to see what happens has been overall fruitful - hell, even the Wii supported keyboards iirc. Used my Android to test an Apple Magic Mouse at a yardsale recently too.

Nice! I’ll be honest, it’s not worth it. I’m just at the point of “if I can’t do it more easily with the remote, I’ll settle with doing it frustratingly with the remote”. I could probably get my Bluetooth keyboard paired up to the tv, but how often am I going to use it compared to how often it’s sitting in the living room unused?

It’s really more that I’m frustrated with the poor UX choices that will never go away, or at least don’t appear to be going anywhere.

Re: Resurrecting flip phone typing as a Linux driver

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Post by igigxicicu »

jimmaswell wrote: post #53
phatskat wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can’t stand TV keyboard input, it’s wildly frustrating. I’d be happy even with “abc” style, T9 would be even better ofc. 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…

Have you tried plugging a usb keyboard into your TV? It's always worked for me. My lifelong habit of connecting keyboards/mice to random devices to see what happens has been overall fruitful - hell, even the Wii supported keyboards iirc. Used my Android to test an Apple Magic Mouse at a yardsale recently too.

ps2 even supported usb keyboards and mice.

silent scope with a mouse is cheesy but fun

Re: Resurrecting flip phone typing as a Linux driver

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Post by foxmoss »

jmbwell wrote: post #46
stronglikedan wrote: post #39

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Because vastly more people will know what "flip phone typing" is over "T9 typing".

I figured other way around… Kids These Days might be more likely to have heard of a “flip phone” than “t9” and thus “engage” with this “content”

I had not heard of T9 before starting the project and getting interested, I'm too young to have experienced owning a pre-touch screen phone. I don't know if the average HN reader knows what T9 is, so I went with a term that I was fairly certain most people would be familiar with. Is that so people engage with my work? I certainly found the project fascinating, I made the library to share that fascination. If I can get more people to implement and use T9 and alike systems I think my work has has been a success.

Re: Resurrecting flip phone typing as a Linux driver

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Post by [deleted] »

jorvi wrote: post #11
wkirby wrote: post #3

I dream of building an apple watch case that adds a T9 bluetooth keyboard. Turn the standalone Apple Watch into the dumbphone I've always wanted.

This is exactly my dream too, especially after seeing the Apple Watch prototype dumbphone cases they used to conceal them in public[0]. It would be a glorious re-purposing of the Apple Watch to serve the most diehard fans of the killed iPhone Mini. Sadly the Apple Watch doesn't do proper external text input. You can connect a bluetooth keyboard, but it works by sending all input via the VoiceOver accessibility featur…

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Re: Resurrecting flip phone typing as a Linux driver

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Post by guywhocodes »

akdev1l wrote: post #14

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

A few years ago I started building this. The idea was to send the word and when cycling send the same number of backspaces before the next.

I guess I got busy with other things

Re: Resurrecting flip phone typing as a Linux driver

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Post by szszrk »

stronglikedan wrote: post #39
szszrk wrote: post #35

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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".

It depends on region.

Flip phone is obviously English only. T9 was used globally. My parents knew what T9 was, and so we're all my friends.

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