Feb

9

Its the small coincidences in life…

Filed Under Babbling 

I’ve thought about this one on and off…

I send a lot of text messages and use my cell phone for a lot of things. Heck, I’ve even figured out how to post to this blog here from my cell phone if I wanted to. Scary, you know?

Needless to say, because I send a lot of text messages, I use the T9 predictive text input on my Samsung m510 and I’m fairly fast at getting long complex messages out. I have a spare AIM screen name that forwards right to my cell phone too, which my friends get if they need to reach me (and if you don’t have it and need it, drop me an AIM to my regular screen name). So all in all, I’m fairly accessible and conversive, even when I’m on the go.

The T9 input is really simple and easy to use. If you’re not familiar with it, here’s a simple explanation of how it works. Let’s say you have the word “STOLE.” If you’re doing a regular input on it, you’d type in 7777-8-666-555-33. Why? Because when you type each button, you have to cycle through to the letter that you’re selecting. Now, with the T9 input–or other predictive texts–you’d simply type in 7-8-6-5-3. You save typing in 8 extra key pushes to get the same word. And if you happen to have multiple words with the same keystroke pattern–like “STOKE” as well–you just cycle through the options which your phone shows you. I know this is common place to most folks with cells, but bear with me on this one.

I noticed a while back that certain words have the same keystrokes, and not only that, but they’re correlated…

Think about it:
Good - Home: 4-6-6-3
Love - Loud: 4-6-8-3

The two best examples I could think of. Needless to say, I think that there’s nothing wrong with that… I mean, “home” is “good,” and when you “love” something, you want to shout it out “loud.”

And after those cheesy lines, I’ve got nothing… Enjoy your Saturdays, folks… :)

Comments

One Response to “Its the small coincidences in life…”

  1. munchie on February 9th, 2008 2:26 pm

    Get a phone with a QWERTY keyboard…then your problems will be solved. :-p

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