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April 22, 2007
Texting Just Not Adequate for True Productivity
According to this CNN story, a 13-year-old was crowned National Texting Champion for typing in "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (from 'Mary Poppins') on his phone in 15 seconds.
Just now, I was able to do the same on my Treo in just under 9 seconds. And I wasn't even trying especially hard to be fast, just accurate (I didn't want to have to do it over again).
I'm not saying this to brag, but merely to make a point: a numerical-keypad phone will never be considered a productivity-minded business communications tool until we no longer need to enter text via keys. It just won't do to have to type out lots of even short emails if you have to do so by hitting up to three keys just to get a single character. And let's not even consider adequate (let alone proper) punctuation.
Posted by Craig in Mobile & PDAs
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