The noses on emojis didn’t make the cut. :-)
you can still buy phones with a T9
At least one of my smart phones had a way to do it. If it’s still there now, it’s buried much deeper.
And we skipped all the Polish letters like “Ł” and “Ń” because there was a 150 character limit, these used up 16 characters and messages cost money back then.
That 1 time I got in trbl 4 snd 2 mny msg n bill was hi
Yeah, when each txt was like 10-20 cents… Which isn’t much. But can add up QUICK!!!
and you spelled the word high using only one key…
Fuck T9
All my homies hate T9
eh, you get used to it.
Real Gs used T9. Hell, I still use it to this very day on my smartwatch.
Bangle.js?
PalmPilot Graffiti ftw.
Anyone who actually used those phones knows that you press every button once and let the T9 figure out which word you are typing
I could still type with P9 on auto pilot
skl ovr pk me up
I hated T9. My first phone was the Sidekick, and it sucked when I had moved on to a Razr because I had to switch carriers.
Japan still kind of has that situation as I understand it. They have more kanji than can fit on a keypad, so there’s a bit of grouping to form a particular one on larger keyboard buttons.
Usually it’s slide to type
I want that phone back. I want the internet from back then too 😭
Internet from back then + accessability from today would be peak
T9 master race checking in!
Great, the millennial version of pretending not writing cursive makes people stupid
I used to be able to type messages on these without even looking
Yep. When it’s the best option, it’s surprising how good and quick you could be with it. Plus it was super nice to just stealthily send a text message while holding your phone under a desk and looking somewhere else.
Used to get around the “no phones at work” rule with that.
Can’t stop what you can’t see :-D
Then you put it in your prison pocket and set it to morse code.
I just checked and I can still type them into the air
