Yet another keypad idea

Sat Sep 8 15:56:19 CEST 2007

On 15:47:15 2007-09-08 OJW <openmoko at blibbleblobble.co.uk> wrote:
> On Saturday 08 September 2007 14:17, Giles Jones wrote:
> > I don't see how pressing three keys for one letter is faster than   
> > predictive?
> 
> 
> Remember that browser URL bars, and Bash (to name two apps) already
> support their own autocomplete.  A predictive-text keyboard would need
> to integrate with the browser history, or the bash-history to get good
> matches, rather than using the facilities which are already there.  If
> you're SSH on another machine, or entering text into a
> AJAX-autocompleting webpage, then the keyboard program may not even
> have access to the relevant dictionary.
> 
> 

Hmm I've recently started using
http://www.exideas.com on my palm and I must say it's a great improvement
over both grafiti or a virtual keyboard...

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