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Resurrecting flip phone typing as a Linux driver

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112 points foxmoss | 2 comments | 23 Jun 25 19:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.444s | source
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jesprenj ◴[23 Jun 25 19:46 UTC] No.44359321[source]▶
I never saw anyone use T9 in Slovenia, but from being online and watching american movies I noticed it's used almost universally. I guess it works for typing English but Slovene didn't get such good support. Plus it was never enabled by default so people (myself included) just learned to get fast fingers.
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1. franga2000 ◴[23 Jun 25 20:47 UTC] No.44359911[source]▶
I remember disabling T9 as the first step when getting any "new" phone, so it must've been enabled on some. Then again, I rarely got phones new from the store, so this might have been because they were factory reset.

I don't think I ever really knew what it was, other than "that thing that made typing difficult". I doubt any phone shipped with a Slovene dictionary for T9, so it was probably just doing its best trying to map my seemingly nonsensical keypresses onto English words.

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2. Cene12 ◴[25 Jun 25 06:34 UTC] No.44374193[source]▶
I want to provide a counterexample: my Sony Ericsson W... something had a decent T9 Slovene dictionary. If I manage to turn it on, I'll let you know:)