Tegic Communications has announced that it will integrate its T9 software with Psion Plc’s EPOC operating system, the 32-bit OS adapted by the Symbian Ltd joint venture (CI No 3,488). The ‘smart input’ technology is aimed at smartphones and other wireless data devices based on the Symbian platform. Using a telephone keypad, each key contains multiple letters and the user has to hit the key only once to access the letter they want – the T9 algorithm then automatically determines from all the possible variations which word is being typed. The software protocol within T9 matches the keystrokes with completed words from a database containing 60,000 words. The Seattle, Washington-based company recently developed a PalmPilot version of the T9 software (CI No 3,432).
