Fastest way To Text?

psychooys

personally i have been using T9 (if you don't know: http://www.textfast.t9.com/index1.htm ) for text messaging recently, but i know that there are some people who still use the manual way to text people. what do you use? and which is faster?

Sam Vimes

t9 is considerably faster. the word sorry takes 5 button presses with it and 17 without (assuming you press right rather than wait between the r's

c - 13

I used to use T9 but sometimes the words I wanted didnt come out right and then i'd send them without reading the message, with manual at least if only one letter is corrupted you can still make out what the word is.
If were not taking this into account though, yeah T9 is probably faster.

Sparky

i use 02 sms for office outlook, sends them via the internet.

Pythia

I use T9. It learns new words, so once I type them in once, they're always there. Not big into 'txt spk' anyway.

Creamy Goodness

T9 is the one that comes on Sony Ericson phones right?

because as pythia says the way it learns new words is genius.

although i'm not much of a "texter" - i tend to spell words right - i find T9 better than the way you text on nokia phones

Sam Vimes

t9 is another name for predictive text. its not just sony ericssons

Creamy Goodness

Commander Vimes wrote:

t9 is another name for predictive text. its not just sony ericssons

ohh right, well i love the way SE's can save words, as far as i can remember my 6600 couldn't save words

crosstownk

T9 is much faster. Mind you if your not careful you could ask your mates if they are going for a riot instead of a pint!!!

Neil_Sedaka

crosstownk wrote:

T9 is much faster. Mind you if your not careful you could ask your mates if they are going for a riot instead of a pint!!!

Have done that several times! "fancy a riot on Friday night?"

Kristok

depending on the type of person it means the same thing

Fighting Irish

Cremo wrote:

ohh right, well i love the way SE's can save words, as far as i can remember my 6600 couldn't save words

as far as i know all phones with T9 save words

Sam Vimes

crosstownk wrote:

T9 is much faster. Mind you if your not careful you could ask your mates if they are going for a riot instead of a pint!!!

you could ask them to go for a shot too


if you want to type the word cock, anal comes up first

Mr Moon

Is there anyway to see or edit what words the T9 saves? I have a 6680 and it keeps deleting words on me, can get quiet annoying when you're cursing in a text and it keeps going ducking and then spell!!!

Random

Commander Vimes wrote:

you could ask them to go for a shot too


if you want to type the word cock, anal comes up first

Trust you to work that one out


Personally I find typing via webtext or MyPhoneExplorer the fastest ways to text .. followed by T9

Farcear

Yeah, I started using predictive text (pfft, T9) last year and now that's all I ever use. It can get quite annoying when a word comes up that isn't recognised in the dictionary, but all that does is slow you down to the speed of manual texting.

It's a great development for us txtppl!

In feact one of the best things about T9 is that ppl cnt txt like dis nemore. They have to use PROPER english.

I also use T9, the speed I can text at is crazy. The only stumbling block is that the 6680's buttons are a little too small so I have to be more careful.

I can type faster on Motorola flip phones, especially the V525/550, but the phone has trouble keeping up with me! So that's the stumbling block with those.

psychooys

Ya its sorta fun to see what random words you scroll through when using T9, the cock and anal things is pretty funny :P