What’s new is old. Cre8txt has made a keyboard for PCs that uses a Bell Keypad-based predictive text input system that is “designed to capture the texting skills that so many young people have and allow those skills to be used to input words onto a computer”.
Link: cre8txt (creatxt.com, via)
I see so many articles that talk about the strong-specific vs weak-general device design. Is this really something that’s an interesting question? Or is it just idle talk to fill in the time because people don’t actually know what mobile devices are useful for?
“Tweak the question, though, to ask whether mobile phones will ever eclipse, [...]