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Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Testing FasTap on the LG AX490
This video from phonescoop shows that it's actually faster to use T9 and a normal phone keypad instead of FasTap's solution (here implemented in the LG AX490) where additional keys have been put beside the numeric keys. This even for a user that's never used T9 before.One reason mentioned: FasTap has designed its own placement of letters, meaning you can't use your experience of full keypads or normal phone keypads. That doesn't explain it fully though, as learning the QWERTY layout also takes time, but gets pretty effective with experience.
I doubt though that T9 is faster than FasTap when you write words not in the ditionary. That's something I'd like improved in T9: to have a much quicker way of writing "odd" words, e.g. by entering a multitap context by pressing a single key before starting entering the word, and then have that word saved automatically when done. I don't know if eZiText is better at this.
FasTap Video Diary (Phone Scoop)
