T9 worked a hell of a lot better than whatever the dunce we have now. I could do that shit one handed not looking and still get a coherent message out. Now paying FULL attention to what I’m doing I’ll still say thigns loke this.
No they didn’t, they died doing this wrong. They wouldn’t make a normal Droid pattern landscape keyboard phone. They always had to make vertical out-the-end keyboards that were too narrow for humans to type on.
I think the vertical keyboards would have been fine, but not switching to Android definitely lead to their downfall. They had too much arrogance as the smartphone leader and thought everyone would move their apps to their system even though they were the ones playing catchup.
Don’t forget poor Nokia. Maemo/Meego was awesome, but too late. Then Microsoft decided to put the final nail in the coffin, and drop it in the ocean with windows phone.
You hear people say “I really liked Windows Phone, the interface was great” but Microsoft has no game that isn’t “we’ve been the standard on PC for generations.” They have no wherewithal to make a mobile platform happen. They had the Windows CE devices since the 90’s that competed with Palm, but neither penetrated the way cell phones did where EVERYONE has one. Even though they beat both Apple and Google to the portable electronics market by at least a decade, Microsoft were totally followers in the space. Their strategy was “We are also here. You want to use us because we also make your desktop PC OS. It runs a fucked up version of Outlook, Word and Excel.” Which…didn’t work.
T9 took significantly longer to type with. I rocked a flip phone and enjoyed how engaging t9 was and the added time cost acted as a buffer so that I was less likely to use the device for frivolous stuff.
Are you referring to having to press the 2 key three times in order to type the letter c? Usually T9 refers to the type of predictive text where you can press just 43556 and the phone predicts that you are typing hello
I was proficient at T9 in a way that I just haven’t been able to build with an onscreen keyboard. I endnup typingblikenthis because I can’t feel where the space bar is, and having to go back and fix everything is a pain. So you either end up incomprehensible or you turn on autocorrect and end up typing like ducking shot.
Reminds me of simpler times. Please reassure me that this isn’t how you’re browsing Lemmy though…
As gen X/Y, we should exclusively be shitposting in T9
T9 worked a hell of a lot better than whatever the dunce we have now. I could do that shit one handed not looking and still get a coherent message out. Now paying FULL attention to what I’m doing I’ll still say thigns loke this.
Blackberry died for this.
No they didn’t, they died doing this wrong. They wouldn’t make a normal Droid pattern landscape keyboard phone. They always had to make vertical out-the-end keyboards that were too narrow for humans to type on.
I think the vertical keyboards would have been fine, but not switching to Android definitely lead to their downfall. They had too much arrogance as the smartphone leader and thought everyone would move their apps to their system even though they were the ones playing catchup.
Apple played the fashion statement crowd with the iPhone, continuing with their momentum from the iPod and iMac lines.
Google went for the tech savvy crowd with slide out keyboards and their suite of search-based services like Google Maps.
Blackberry and Palm also ran.
Don’t forget poor Nokia. Maemo/Meego was awesome, but too late. Then Microsoft decided to put the final nail in the coffin, and drop it in the ocean with windows phone.
You hear people say “I really liked Windows Phone, the interface was great” but Microsoft has no game that isn’t “we’ve been the standard on PC for generations.” They have no wherewithal to make a mobile platform happen. They had the Windows CE devices since the 90’s that competed with Palm, but neither penetrated the way cell phones did where EVERYONE has one. Even though they beat both Apple and Google to the portable electronics market by at least a decade, Microsoft were totally followers in the space. Their strategy was “We are also here. You want to use us because we also make your desktop PC OS. It runs a fucked up version of Outlook, Word and Excel.” Which…didn’t work.
T9 took significantly longer to type with. I rocked a flip phone and enjoyed how engaging t9 was and the added time cost acted as a buffer so that I was less likely to use the device for frivolous stuff.
Are you referring to having to press the
2key three times in order to type the letterc? Usually T9 refers to the type of predictive text where you can press just43556and the phone predicts that you are typinghelloYes I am lol, ty for the correction
I was proficient at T9 in a way that I just haven’t been able to build with an onscreen keyboard. I endnup typingblikenthis because I can’t feel where the space bar is, and having to go back and fix everything is a pain. So you either end up incomprehensible or you turn on autocorrect and end up typing like ducking shot.
Lol, no. Though it does work in a pinch.