I've gotten pretty fast at shooting out SMSs on my cellphone, however there's a typing bottleneck whenever there are two consecutive letters that use the same key.
For example, "gh" is a common culprit. I have to hit 4 once to enter "g", then pause for literally an entire second while the letter select box disappears so I can hit 4 again twice to enter "h". Is there a way to get around this pause?
iphone
Japanese character sets.
^ The ultimate texting language.
>>1
T9. typing 8398464 is a lot faster than typing 83399444664.
if you don't like that or if your phone is shitty and doesn't have it, try pressing the right arrow key after typing the first of the two letters.
> a way to get around this pause?
Hold the key down
> T9.
I'm gonna try this out for a while, although I have before and didn't like it. I don't remember why.
> try pressing the right arrow key after typing the first of the two letters.
This works!
> Hold the key down
This doesn't, at least on my phone.
Whatever you do, don't go so fast that your messages are unintelligible. If you have to re-send the message because the other party couldn't read the first one, then you've effectively halved your text throughput.
http://stuartl.longlandclan.hopto.org/blog/2006/09/04/sms-speak-mutilating-the-english-language/
>>8
what don't you like about T9?
>>9 doesnt have short hand words like 'wat' pre saved. shortening a few words can save me some credit/texts on my contract!
>>10
oh. on my phone you can add words. and i have unlimited texts for only $7 a month, i don't see why anyone wouldn't get unlimited texts if they're going to text at all.
i usually use between 3,000 and 4,000 texts a month, so it'd be pretty expensive if i didn't have unlimited even if i managed to cut that number in half by using shortcut words.
>>12
it does on my phone, at least.
eg. if you were typing "isn't", you'd press 4, 7, 6, 1, 8 (1 being the general purpose punctuation key).
phones vary in how they handle punctuation, though, so yours might not work like that.
I like my phone, I just handwrite the message and it turns that into text for the SMS. Problem solved.
You can always add it to the dictionary, you know. T9 and no T9 may require the same number of button presses, but it's not the same for other words.
Just keep trying, you'll love it. I do, and I fell in love with texting again.
my phone rox
The fuck? 100 texts a day? Jesus.
On-topic, I have the LG VX9800 (EnV). It has a QWERTY keyboard. I really don't wanna get another phone without a full keyboard like that, it's super-convenient to appear literate over an SMS broadcast.
This is why the Japanese Language is Superior.