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Resurrecting flip phone typing as a Linux driver

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113 points foxmoss | 1 comments | 23 Jun 25 19:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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throw0101c ◴[23 Jun 25 20:31 UTC] No.44359768[source]▶
"Flip phone typing" = T9:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T9_(predictive_text)

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rfl890 ◴[23 Jun 25 20:34 UTC] No.44359794[source]▶
the library is named libt9, I believe the author is aware of this...
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szszrk ◴[23 Jun 25 21:11 UTC] No.44360163[source]▶
Then why is a flip phone in the title? That was not specific to flip phones at all.
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stronglikedan ◴[23 Jun 25 21:24 UTC] No.44360288[source]▶
Because vastly more people will know what "flip phone typing" is over "T9 typing".
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1. szszrk ◴[24 Jun 25 06:22 UTC] No.44363337[source]▶
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.