Comments on: E71 v/s E90 v/s T9 – Which Is The Fastest?

By: Telecom Consultant

Telecom Consultant — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:16:21 +0000

I’ve been using my e-90 on AT&T in the US for two weeks now. Previously tried a 9500 (abandoned because of poor coverage – no 850 GSM), and a Cingular branded 9300.

For the past 5 years I’ve been using a string of forever-upgrading Windows Mobile devices. Our company is on an Exchange Server, and the e-mail, contacts, and calender syncing was great. However, very mediocre phones. The touchscreen, while great for some things, is terrible for one-handed operations. The Bluetooth on every HTC device I’ve owned was intermittent, dropping calls at the most inopportune times, and the reception was never great.

I like the idea of the communicator, and the Activesync application finally sold me.

By: Phreek

Phreek — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:14:37 +0000

Hi! I am an another long time T9 fan. I deliberately chose E66 over E71, because I like the nice big keys that T9 phones offer, let alone their (especially E66′s) design and lack of pancakeness. Just imagine typing or dialling on the tiny QWERTY keys with your thick gloves on when there’s -20 Celsius outside! – it’s not too easy, but well possible with larger keys.

I tried these test texts too. I mostly type in my native language, Estonian, but a couple of tries to get the feel and 46 seconds for the first text and 23 for the second. Again, T9 FTW!

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By: Delta737

Delta737 — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:48:09 +0000

My problem with T9 is that I regularly type words it doesn’t recognize (e.g. names). The time it takes too find out that it doesn’t know the word, than correcting it so that spelling will be the easiest, and then actually spelling the word itself takes SO much time, that I say, QWERTY for ever (that’s why I bought the E90 too replace my N95 – thinking about an E71 now). A lot of friends I know don’t even use T9 (on their “dumb-phones”) because they find that T9 “never” predicts the word they mean (and use the old multi-tap system)

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By: jujupang

jujupang — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 02:55:40 +0000

Oh, thks, that’s simple enough. ***

By: Vaibhav Sharma

Vaibhav Sharma — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:51:38 +0000

Hi’ just hit * once you spell the word out. (Make sure the you see the underline)

By: jujupang

jujupang — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:02:19 +0000

Hi,
Just got N95-3 and having trouble with T9 as compared to previous SE W810i. While trying the test above, when trying to type “role”, Nokia’s T9 kept on coming up with “sold”, how to I check if there other word choices? I had to clear the word and hit # and then spell “role”, I know there must be a predictive way.

By: kiwikan

kiwikan — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:13:32 +0000

I started with usual T9 phones and found them quite quick except when I came to entering odd items, or for words I cannot remember how to spell. So, I went to an E61 and found the keyboard small, but overall pretty good. Then I went to E90, which has the two keyboards. For short sms I use the T9, but for emails or long sms the internal is still the best and I would choose over any of the smaller keyboards.

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By: Len

Len — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:12:45 +0000

Nice test, bur the conclusion seems wrong (from my perspective). It should be like this. For plain text, NO difference. For the mixed text, T9 is at most 11% slower than qwerty, no BIG deal. It would have been if it starting approaching 50%, but it didn’t. So I will happily go with T9 on a phone and qwerty on my laptop.

By: Vinski-

Vinski- — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:08:02 +0000

T9 sucks more one finnish language, unless ur purely writing literary language, wich makes u look dumb on im and irc-chat. However i still prefer to keep T9 mainly on on my E90, as it is handy for short sms. Longer messages and chats I always write qwerty open.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:48:48 +0000

NICE posting!! Great comparison. I’ve found that I get about the same results, as well, when comparing my E61 with my old N95. I love both qwerty AND t9, just the same. They both have advantages and disadvantages.

By: Peter Fjelsten

Peter Fjelsten — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:53:49 +0000

One thing to consider: If you enter a lot of website addresses, predictive text does not help you. Here QWERTY is most definitely faster.

By: JonnyBruha

JonnyBruha — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:54:30 +0000

Oh, and 28 seconds on the second sample seconds. Once again, T9 FTW.

By: JonnyBruha

JonnyBruha — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:52:36 +0000

My first attempt at the sample sentence yielded 59 seconds on my N95-4. I’ve reached a high speed of 71 WPM on iphonetypingtest.com on my N95-4 as well. It sounds like everyone needs to spend a little bit more time with T9.

By: Mr Fab ulous

Mr Fab ulous — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:52:02 +0000

Vaibhav, try the 3 phones at:

http://www.iphonetypingtest.com/test-freeform.html

If you dont get the fastest speeds with the E90, you’re doing something wrong. Unless you have very small hands.

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