T9 text messaging

[Lau]

don't moto phones have a similar feature?

Yeah, but it's really dreadful. I was so glad when my Motorola died because it meant I could get predictive text, as I text much more than I phone (on my mobile phone, anyway).

 

[jazzlover]

Yes, once again you can tel your friends how stupid and fat us Americans are. T9 still rocks though and I'm no the only one figuring this out now.

 

[grapes911]

Yeah, but it's really dreadful. I was so glad when my Motorola died because it meant I could get predictive text, as I text much more than I phone (on my mobile phone, anyway).

I find the Motorola version to be exactly like the T9 on my LG. What do you find so different about it?

 

[Lau]

!!!!!

I think it's just different cultures etc using different ways to talk (or not). Americans could accuse us of being too repressed to say it out loud....

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I find the Motorola version to be exactly like the T9 on my LG. What do you find so different about it?

It could be they've changed it now - this was a phone from a couple of years ago. From what I remember, my main gripe was that it didn't have a dictionary memory, so it wouldn't remember place names, people's names, swear words and the like. As those make up the bulk of my messages, D) it wasn't much more useful than 'abc' type messaging.

 

[jazzlover]

True but repressions probably a personal problem not a national one.

 

[nooudles]

Motorolas do have it cept its called iTap and is pretty much identical. Ive been using predictive text for about 5 years now! Must be a British thing!

 

[StokeLee]

I use the Nokia 6630 at the moment, my 5th or 6th phone with T9 predictive text messaging.

Ive slowed down with my texts though, used to send about 2- 3 thousand a month, but with no GF its gone down to bout 3-4 hundred, all free though. Thank god.

 

[grapes911]

Motorolas do have it cept its called iTap and is pretty much identical. Ive been using predictive text for about 5 years now! Must be a British thing!

No. In my earlier post, I said I've been using it for about 4.

 

[jazzlover]

I wish they would include some slang in T9. That's the only thing that holds me up much.

 

[bousozoku]

I use T9 entry with my Sanyo phone and it helps a lot with English but as soon as I need to enter Japanese or something else, it becomes a huge pain. Still, it's better than shortening everything by leaving out the vowels. "sry, wht did u say? oh nvm, it's ok. i got it." Okay, that's not so bad but T9 helps sometimes.

I think it's just different cultures etc using different ways to talk (or not). Americans could accuse us of being too repressed to say it out loud....

Privacy and propriety your main directives there, causing you to keep things quiet?

 

[jazzlover]

They don't have T9 in Japanese, they should.

 

[runninmac]

I <3 T9 messaging

I got my first "cell" in the summer and discovered it a month ago. It speeds up aton except I dont like how the word "cool" turns to "book" and other minor annoyances like that. It really helps in class... except i have to be sneaky so I dont get caught. Ive almost memrized my keypad

 

[Nermal]

It speeds up aton except I dont like how the word "cool" turns to "book" and other minor annoyances like that.

One that always gets me is home/good. It always defaults to the wrong one

I was talking to someone (starbuckssam?) the other day and he was amazed/jealous to hear about free text on weekends.

 

[runninmac]

One that always gets me is home/good. It always defaults to the wrong one

I was talking to someone (starbuckssam?) the other day and he was amazed/jealous to hear about free text on weekends.

AWSOME! I just read some parts of the website. They built in a next key for me its "0" all i have to do is press it twice and "book" will change to "cool"!

Wow this just made my day!

PS: what service gets free txts on weekends? I have to pay verizon $5 a month for unlimted in pix and txts sorta sucks.

 

[leftbanke7]

leftbank, your not gonna correct my spelling are you. Should I be using spell check.

Eh, spell how ever you want. Makes no difference to me

 

[Nermal]

They built in a next key for me its "0" all i have to do is press it twice and "book" will change to "cool"!

Yep, already knew about that one

PS: what service gets free txts on weekends? I have to pay verizon $5 a month for unlimted in pix and txts sorta sucks.

I have no idea about the US. All the major carriers here offer a "free text" service.

 

[Counterfit]

I'm pretty sure my first phone (Ericsson something-or-other. Nice phone until the mic died), and my second (Nokia 5165), and my third/fourth/fifth (SonyEricsson T306/T68i/T227, only really used the T68i), and my sixth (SE T610) and my current phone (SE S710a). I didn't use it until I got the T610, because it wasn't on by default before then. And damn, what a difference it makes. Much faster, and when it learns what you want (like when I input my work schedule), it's even better.

 

[dotdotdot]

Motorolas do have it cept its called iTap and is pretty much identical.

iTap is more intrusive (and less accurate) than T9.

 

[zach]

what i really want is perfect speech to text on cellphones...

but i'm guessing that's farrr farrr away.

 

[russed]

I wish they would include some slang in T9. That's the only thing that holds me up much.

you will find that you are able to add words to the dictionary, that will speed things up a bit!

 

[bousozoku]

what i really want is perfect speech to text on cellphones...

but i'm guessing that's farrr farrr away.

It would be really nice if it went in one phone clearly and came out the other one clearly...consistently. Forget about speech to text...

 

[mpw]

...do non of you text over there, i send like 400 a month on average! i get 1000 free though with my contract!...

I've using mobile phone text messages since ~1995 and there's no way I've used 400 in 10years! What the hell do you find so important that you send that many every month? I think text messages are useful but I don't get what people like you are doing with them, unless you're one of those teens I've seen in clubs texting each other across the dance floor rather than have a conversation.

 

[asif786]

I've using mobile phone text messages since ~1995 and there's no way I've used 400 in 10years! What the hell do you find so important that you send that many every month? I think text messages are useful but I don't get what people like you are doing with them, unless you're one of those teens I've seen in clubs texting each other across the dance floor rather than have a conversation.

I send around 200 texts a month (but that's just because i get them free). Generally, it's a lot easier for short conversations..and with a text message, you don't need to worry if someone is busy or in a meeting..you're not disturbing them..

I don't use T9 or iTap on my V3. Just because I've never had the chance to get used to it and now I'm too lazy to learn..doh.

 

[russed]

I've using mobile phone text messages since ~1995 and there's no way I've used 400 in 10years! What the hell do you find so important that you send that many every month? I think text messages are useful but I don't get what people like you are doing with them, unless you're one of those teens I've seen in clubs texting each other across the dance floor rather than have a conversation.

well im not one of those teens! i dont know why i send so many, i am usually planning lots of things and reminding people to do things and so in that sense i can blanket text people rather than having to ring each person individually.

 

[Abstract]

I think they're much more widely used in the UK than in the US. I don't know about the rest of Europe though.

Tis true. I got into texting when I lived in the UK. Once I got back to Canadia, it was like going back to the stone age.

And I texted just fine in England before I got into T9.

Yep, already knew about that one



I have no idea about the US. All the major carriers here offer a "free text" service.

Your avatar is wicked! Where did you get it?