Resurrecting flip phone typing as a Linux driver

Because vastly more people will know what "flip phone typing" is over "T9 typing".

Will they? I don't think I've ever heard it called that before.

I figured other way around… Kids These Days might be more likely to have heard of a “flip phone” than “t9” and thus “engage” with this “content”

I had not heard of T9 before starting the project and getting interested, I'm too young to have experienced owning a pre-touch screen phone. I don't know if the average HN reader knows what T9 is, so I went with a term that I was fairly certain most people would be familiar with. Is that so people engage with my work? I certainly found the project fascinating, I made the library to share that fascination. If I can get more people to implement and use T9 and alike systems I think my work has has been a success.

It depends on region.

Flip phone is obviously English only. T9 was used globally. My parents knew what T9 was, and so we're all my friends.

Plenty of feature phones were not flip phones.

Probably in regions of the world where flip phones were the dominant form factor for phones...

Yes they will. I'd never heard the term T9 before this thread. If I saw it on its own I'd think Arnold was attempting to make another Terminator movie.

Nice! I clearly made an assumption that you were an Old like me :D

YMMV. I rocked a flip phone (ZTE Cymbal) for 5 years and only just recently learnt it was called T9, in modern days I don't think it's such a common term.