input methods for smartphones

[Jennifer Teeter]

Dear Bill,

I think Japanese manufacturers have done with entering syllabic text can be a good model. With Japanese on Smartphones you have two options for entering text. You can enter based on a keyboard (and romanized alphabet) or based on a touch pad for a phone. Each number correlates to a different consonant, for example #1 is "k" so ka, ki, ku, ke, ko and you get to "ka" by touching #1 one time, and "ko" by pressing five times. Japanese has two different syllable-based writing systems and one based on Chinese characters (as you know) and they manage to incorporate all three into the phones. Easy to use once you are used to it. Hope this helps!

Best wishes
Jen Teeter


On 平成23/02/23, at 6:55, Bill Poser <billposer2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have been asked about the possibility of texting on smartphones using the Carrier "syllabic" writing system. I know very little about smartphones. Does anybody know about input methods for smartphones? Thanks.