Hi,
I've been thinking on how to improve on the text input method on the iphone. Of all the PDAs/smartphones I've used, the PalmOS Graffiti system has been the one that was fastest to use for me.
I haven't found any implementations for the iphone, though.
After some googling, I found this very interesting alternative called Quikwriting, which is a shorthand writing technique which never requires you to lift the pen/finger, supposedly up to 3 times faster than Graffiti.
The idea seems to be about 10 years old, developed by the NewYork University media research lab, more info
here
and a java demo
here.
It seems quite straightforward to implement the logic, but I have no idea of how hard it would be to hack/replace the current keyboard with this.
I would be great to be able to write FAST on the iphone!
Thoughts from any developers in here?
Thanks,
Daniel