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Oh man, I long for the days of phones with T9 input and hardware keys you could physically feel. It was so easy to walk down the street and tap out a text messa
by FearNotDaniel 3y ago
Oh man, I long for the days of phones with T9 input and hardware keys you could physically feel. It was so easy to walk down the street and tap out a text message with results much more predictable than "predictive" text, only occasionally having to glance down at the phone to check what you wrote. You could do it all with one hand, it was very unlikely you would drop the phone in the process and even if you did, it would just bounce instead of smashing the whole precious touch screen.
Yeah, these days I only type on the touch screen if it's absolutely unavoidable - if I can't get to my laptop, but can still sit down, I much prefer a little flip out Bluetooth keyboard with the phone on a stand.
- gatane 3y agoSee this, it has the T9 input method too: https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key
- mikecoles 3y agoI see mention of T9 in "On phones that used the 9-key numeric layout, T9 predictive text was used. Other phones used the full-hand layout with the familiar QWERTY layout, with other proprietary predictive methods." I'm unable to verify this app has T9 as an input method. Is there a custom layout for this? T9 was pretty sweet as you could type without needing to look at the device. Maybe this layout? https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key/issues/263 https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key/issues/263 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i6scYO3PHnyvA_JwB09WMA_8ynCeZiDZ/edit#gid=1941015483 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i6scYO3PHnyvA_JwB09W...
- forgotpwd16 3y agoAnySoftKeyboard has T9-like layout but lacks T9 prediction.