Resurrecting flip phone typing as a Linux driver
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#2The great thing about those keyboards was that a lot of people could just turn off text prediction and type text with a single hand without looking at the screen.
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#3I 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.
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#4The great thing about those keyboards was that a lot of people could just turn off text prediction and type text with a single hand without looking at the screen.
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 dont know any better these days. There’s actual adults walking today that have never typed on a real keyboard.
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#5The great thing about those keyboards was that a lot of people could just turn off text prediction and type text with a single hand without looking at the screen.
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…
T9 works good for English and simple texts. If you need some other language, declensions, conjugations and non-Latin script things are no longer good.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
T9 works good for English and simple texts. If you need some other language, declensions, conjugations and non-Latin script things are no longer good .
Eh you would abbreviate things to hell to get around it. Helped with sms prices on those days too!
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#7I never saw anyone use T9 in Slovenia, but from being online and watching american movies I noticed it's used almost universally. I guess it works for typing English but Slovene didn't get such good support. Plus it was never enabled by default so people (myself included) just learned to get fast fingers.
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#8Blind-typing an SMS on a Nokia 3310 was so fast... or at least that was the feeling.
I still regularly miss those keyboards, in particular when I hesitate between swiping a word or typing it, guessing how autocorrect will fail if I don't type... This never happened with my 3310, and there was no need for it at all.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
T9 works good for English and simple texts. If you need some other language, declensions, conjugations and non-Latin script things are no longer good .
Eh you would abbreviate things to hell to get around it. Helped with sms prices on those days too!
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.