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London, U.K. - 12 December 2005 - Did you know that a Puggle is a new breed of dog crossed between a Pug and a Beagle? Or that Vlogs (video blogs) are the latest rage? Language is constantly evolving, with new words becoming part of our culture every day. To help Britons better communicate, these and other words have been added to a special T9 predictive text input dictionary for users to tap into when texting on their mobiles.
Some of the hottest buzz words of the year added include:
- ASBO - anti-social behaviour order
- Europop - pop music from continental Europe with simple melodies
- Smlirt - flirting in the ’smokers’ area of an establishment
- Ubersexual - a heterosexual male who is both confident and compassionate with a strong interest in good causes and principles
- Podcast - a downloadable audio broadcast
By making the language used in everyday conversation available on phones, this special T9® dictionary gives mobile users greater freedom to express themselves via text. T9® predictive text software anticipates the word that you are going to use when you press each key just once. For example, keying ’podcast’ requires just 7 keystrokes (7-6-3-2-2-7-8) instead of 14 when tapping out the letters individually. And ’vlog’ can be reached in 4 steps instead of 10.
Texting is an incredibly popular form of communication. With an average of 89 million text messages sent per day in the U.K. in September[1] alone, this hot trend shows no sign of cooling down. T9 is available on a majority of phones offering speedy predictive texting, and with more than 34,000 words in the English language T9 dictionary users can tap out a text faster than ever.
"Texting is one of the most dominant modern communication methods and our goal is to keep up with the changing language trends," said William Clement, senior marketing manger, Europe, Tegic Communications, the company behind T9 predictive text input software. "By adding these new words to the dictionary we hope to give users the ability to text in a similar way to how they would speak to one another. As new words pop up in our language, we will keep adding them to the dictionary."
T9 predictive text software is available on over 800 mobile phone models worldwide, including many Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Siemens handsets. The latest version of T9 software (v. 7.3), as well as this special language database of buzz words, is now available for handset makers to integrate into their mobile phones. For users struggling to get to grips with predictive text entry, check out the T9® Trainer at http://www.textfast.T9.com.
[1] Stats from Mobile Data Association http://www.text.it/mediacentre/
About T9® Text Input Software
T9 Text Input, a leading alphabet-based and Chinese, Japanese and Korean character-based text input software, is the flagship product of Tegic Communications, and is available in more than 49 languages. By incorporating T9 Text Input into mobile communications products, companies are solving the fundamental problem of how to quickly and easily type and send SMS text messages. More than 800 mobile phone models available throughout the world today include T9 Text Input and the technology has been licensed to major consumer electronics and communications equipment manufacturers worldwide. For more information about T9 Text Input software, visit http://www.t9.com.
About Tegic Communications
Tegic Communications is a leading provider of enabling software for mobile data services, including T9 Text Input, a market leader in predictive text input. A wholly owned subsidiary of America Online, Inc., Tegic was founded in 1995 to develop and market communication technologies for the telecommunications and computing industries. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington (U.S.A.) and has offices in London, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul, Beijing and Bangalore.
Tegic is on the Web at http://www.tegic.com.
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