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I was quite surprised when I went to China and looked at people texting with their phones, wondering how many keys they would need in their touchscreen keyboard
by Al-Khwarizmi 5y ago
I was quite surprised when I went to China and looked at people texting with their phones, wondering how many keys they would need in their touchscreen keyboard, and finding out that most of them use... 9.
The classic pre-smartphone phone keyboard, where you write in pinyin and the corresponding Chinese characters get predicted.
- kalleboo 5y agoThe most common input method on Japanese smartphones is also a 12-key keyboard modeled after feature phones, since it has the lucky coincidence that it maps onto the Japanese phonetic system perfectly - あかさたなはまやらわ+modifiers. On feature phones you had to multi-tap to get from あ to い to う, but on a touchscreen they added "flicking" into different directions to jump directly to a character. Once you get used to it, you can get really fast at it! Animated demonstration: https://media.giphy.com/media/gjOWCOlhd98wI4dYcd/giphy.gif https://media.giphy.com/media/gjOWCOlhd98wI4dYcd/giphy.gif