ITap

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iTap is a predictive text technology for mobile phones, developed by Motorola as a competitor to T9. It was designed as a replacement for the old letter mappings on phones to help in word entry on mobile phones. This allows an easier use of messaging and note-taking features.

One of the main differences between iTap and T9 is that iTap is able to complete words, phrases or even full sentences. T9 is unable to guess a word until the user has typed out a number of letters equal to the full word length. iTap will guess the best match based upon a built in dictionary, including words sharing the typed prefix. This dictionary also contains phrases and commonly used sentences. This way the predictive guesses iTap offers are enhanced based upon context of the word that is being typed.

Even though this feature appears to be extremely useful, iTap is considered harder to learn than T9 due to this extra guesswork. Additionally, it may be required to scroll through several more words than you would have with T9 because iTap will attempt to complete the word. Example: car and card.

Trivia

• For some reason, if the user attempts to enter the racial slur "nigger", iTap will ask if the user is attempting to type "niggerchanovsky".

See also

• T9
• LetterWise

External links

• [Some notes on iTap]

 

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