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New text input technology from Tegic Communications, a private Seattle firm, makes the wireless handset a much more efficient device for composing e-mail messages.
Called T9, the patented, intuitive software enables users to make one entry where three may have been required before. Users punch in a message with far greater speed than the usual way letter entry has been done, which requires keying "5-5-5" to render an "L." The T9 determines that a user wants an "L" by intuitively "reading" it into the message's context.
As with a typewriter keyboard, one letter typically requires one punch.
Unlike the repetitive punch...