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Four of the biggest, most connected, most geEEEEEEEEeky people got together after the Future of Mobile event yesterday and decided to do a head to head comparison, based on their own skills, between T9 input and the iPhone’s touchscreen analogue keyboard.
Who won?
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it’s not exactly a scientific experiment…
take 4 uber-geeks, 8 beers, 12 mojitos, a coke and 4 mobiles, then see which one can text fastest when none of them are sober enough to see the screens.
funny tho
Posted by GeekYouUp on November 15th, 2007 at 1:31 pm.I’d like to point out that there was a rematch off-screen, where the novice iPhone user (me) pretty much tied with James ‘thumbs’ Whatley. Viva le iPhone keyboard and predictive typing!
Posted by Mike on November 15th, 2007 at 1:36 pm.For the record “Pretty much tied” also stands for “Still lost”.
Posted by James 'thumbs' Whatley on November 15th, 2007 at 2:31 pm.them’s fightin’ T9 words! OS showdown at the Geek Bar. Your 10 years of T9 practice against my pathetic Apple-fondling mitts any day buddy
…you bring the beer, I’ll happily loose anytime, anywhere.
Posted by Mike on November 15th, 2007 at 2:42 pm.Like GeekYouUp said it TOTALLY wasn’t scientific and we’d been drinking lots of mojitos beforehand… notice how I skillfully avoided being in the competition by volunteering to video it
I understand a sober rematch is being arranged
Posted by Dan Lane on November 15th, 2007 at 3:11 pm.Perhaps you guys could hang on a few days and add Adaptxt to the line-up?
Posted by HeavyLight on November 15th, 2007 at 4:56 pm.There’s a decent preview on Symbian in Motion.
You let me down Nokia.
I used to carry the N95 everywhere, but your shoddy overly-sensitive plastic buttons have ridiculed me in the mobile world, and made a mockery of my typing skillz.
I’m gonna get me one of those Future Of Mobile phones I saw… what was it.. the t39m? Yes, that was it.. from the future! I think I have one in my “phones from the future” bucket.
James has agreed to a re-match of sorts, this time T9 vs QWERTY so stay tuned.
Maybe Dan should donate his Daas keyboard for the challenge
Posted by Jay Fenton on November 15th, 2007 at 9:43 pm.@Dan Lane - a ’sober’ rematch?!
PAH!
Posted by James Whatley on November 15th, 2007 at 10:52 pm.I’m thinking we start the cocktails early, and then Whatley can pick up the tab at the end
Posted by Jay Fenton on November 15th, 2007 at 11:07 pm.