T9 Trace ships as QuickType on Samsung’s Wave II
So Samsung's Bada 1.2-based Wave II is now shipping in a variety of European and Asian markets, and it turns out that so phone's so-called "QuickType" input method is actually T9 Trace , Nuance's Swype competitor that was announced earlier this year. Just like Swype, T9 Trace works by letting the user glide a finger around the virtual keyboard to identify what letters they're trying to type -- and if it works as well as Swype does, it's a surprisingly natural, accurate, and fast way to enter text. Samsung, of course, has been one of Swype's longest-running partners, notably having its Omnia II featured in a Verizon commercial where the Guinness record for fastest text is broken -- so it'll be interesting to see whether Sammy keeps a healthy mix of T9 Trace and Swype in its products, or if Nuance has locked up a more lucrative deal.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: engadget-mobile, guinness, mobile, partners, press, running, samsung, swype, virtual, wave ii
Splashtop Remote Desktop brings Windows PC access to your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
Oh, sure -- you've got a smorgasbord of virtual machine clients out there for the iDevice in your life, but you haven't had this one. Until today, of course
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: devicevm, fri, iphone, remote access, remote-desktop, splashtop, splashtopremote, virtual, windows
Verizon nabs Samsung Continuum, Zeal and Motorola Citrus on November 11th, according to gushing leak?
Someone's found their way into an internal database and pulled out details on three Verizon phones -- the Samsung Continuum , Samsung Zeal and Motorola Citrus , all of which will reportedly drop on the 11th of next month.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: gushing-leak, leaks, motorola-citrus, phones, release, virtual, vzw, zeal
BlindType vows to autocorrect all wrongs with your iPhone or Android virtual keyboard (video)
Remember that episode of The Simpsons where Homer gets too fat to be able to dial a number? Well, he wouldn't have had that problem had BlindType been around. This soft keyboard is described by its makers as being extremely resilient to inaccurate input and looking at the demo video after the break, you kinda have to agree -- it seems to have a pretty kickass predictive algorithm
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: apple, autocorrect, blind-operation, demo, engadget, iphone, keyboard, result, type, virtual, vows
MeeGo for handsets makes its first appearance
As promised , Nokia and Intel have revealed the pre-alpha version of MeeGo for handsets today, supporting the Intel-powered Aava reference phone and the Nokia N900 . What's most interesting at this early stage is the UI, which appears to have taken a big Nokia-influenced step away from the Intel-designed MeeGo netbook and tablet UI -- and we're definitely detecting some hints of Android and webOS here and there.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: alpha, atom, intel-designed, keyboard, meego 1.1, meego for handsets, meegoforhandsets, nokia, notably-missing, pre-alpha, symbian, virtual, widgets
More BlackBerry Bold 9800 pics surface: AT&T and virtual keyboard in, SurePress out?
You might've been intrigued by the previous show of the BlackBerry Bold 9800 slider , but this new series of images blows those all out of water. The Berry Fix has a plethora of pics for your perusal, chief among them a showing of the virtual keyboard to complement the physical QWERTY. We gotta say, every announce of good design sense lost on the 9670 must have been spent on this guy; we're really intrigued by this one
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: berry-bold, black, BlackBerry, bold 9800, every-announce, sense, sure press, surepress, virtual
ComScore: Samsung edges out Motorola in US mobile market share
Well, it doesn't look like the news is getting any better for Motorola these days --- ComScore's latest report finds that the company has slipped from its top spot in US market share among mobile OEMs into a virtual tie with Samsung and LG, with Samsung edging out Motorola by just "a fraction of a percent." They're followed by RIM and Nokia, who are now in a tie for a distant fourth place at 8.3%, and Apple, which is said to have a five percent share.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, comscore, country, motorola, oem, rim, samsung, verizon, virtual, web-browser
Here’s how to install Android on your iPhone 2G
Last week, planetbeing claimed he'd ported Android to the iPhone .
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: dual-boot, explorer, iphone, iphone explorer, linux, nutshell, openiboot, phone-explorer, port, result, ubuntu, virtual, virtual machine
T9 Trace lets you Swype through your text messages
You may or may not yet be aware of the Swype virtual keyboard (comes preloaded on the Cliq XT from Motorola), but you'll definitely be hearing about the T9 Trace from Nuance .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: check-out-video, languages, messages, nuance, real, result, seemingly, t9trace, virtual, word
StyleTap finally brings Palm OS to your iPhone
Well it's been a long time coming, but now you can finally run your favorite Palm OS apps on your (jailbroken) iPhone. The good folks at StyleTap have taken that exciting demo we saw way back in May of 2008 and turned it into a Cydia -downloadable reality
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apps, demo, discontinued, emulators, existence, jailbroken, official-number, palm os emulator, palmosemulator, result, totally-badical, virtual