SMS text messaging has been a runaway success with more than 1500 billion messages sent during the last year. Now smart phones are providing more data and internet oriented applications as the phone and computer converge. The demand for text and data input is increasing continually.
Existing solutions are less than ideal. The ubiquitous multitap is slow. Predictive text is restricted to known words and its guesses need constant checking. Qwerty has keys that are too small or a keyboard that is too big. Handwriting recognition needs stable writing conditions and is still too often unreliable.
The quest for convenient, efficient, easy and useful text entry for small devices has proved elusive. There have been many novel approaches but none has fulfilled all of the objectives, until now.
Using the Textra Keypad each letter and number is keyed by a single finger stroke, with no letter ambiguity and no restriction on words, using finger sized keys within a phone sized keypad.
The Textra design retains and enhances the standard phone keypad familiar to users and allows for improved predictive text systems.
The patented Textra Keypad is easy to use, small to fit mobile devices, and offers greatly improved text entry.
