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This means they have an even more powerful tool for character input.

Though this “touch and flick” operation seemed very troublesome and time consuming to the middle and the elderly, students and young adults quickly mastered the “flick (Flick)” input method and they can now input characters much faster than with the MTPC method. Press “3” and flick “up” to get “ す (SU)” and press “3” and flick “right” to get “ せ (SE)”). This method can identify an intended character when the finger flicks in the direction of the intended character several candidates are shown around the touched key (ex.

#ISHIDA UNI 3 KEYPAD LAYOUT FULL#

Smartphones offer the innovative input method called “flick”, which takes full advantage of the software touch tone keys displayed on the touch screen. This trend was greatly accelerated after smartphones were launched in 2008. MTPC provided users with a convenient tool for communicating over the Internet even outside the home. Though OTC was once used in an automated directory assistance service in the 1990’s, followed by research activities T9 and “single-stroke-per-character”, MTPC has become the dominant input method because most mobile phone users preferred it for editing mail messages. Press digit “1” 5 times to get “ お (O)”, and press “3” 3 times to get “ す (SU)”). With the MTPC method, users need to press the same digit multiple times until they get the intended character on the display (ex. Press digit “1” for “ お (O)”, and press digit “3” for “ す (SU)”). With the OTC method, users just touch the digit to which the desired character was allocated without indicating which one of the characters was intended (ex. “ は(HA)”, “ ば(BA)”, “ ぱ(PA)” → digit 6), the other is to request users to additionally touch the “*” key to indicate that the first touched unvoiced sound character should be changed to a voiced sound character (ex. Two basic ideas have been proposed to distribute voiced sound characters: one is to allocate a voiced consonant row with similar hiragana image to the same digit (ex. It is very complicated to do this, because the Japanese syllabary has almost three times as many characters as the English alphabet.īasically, five characters sharing the same consonant are allocated to the same digit. The seventy one Japanese hiragana characters (Japanese syllabary: 46 basic unvoiced sound and 25 voiced sound characters) were allocated to ten digit keys just as the 26 English alphabets were allocated to the digits 2 to digit 9 keys (Table 1). Two input methods have been developed to use touch tone keys, “one-touch-character (OTC)” and “multi-touch-per-character (MTPC)” in this time period. They are being used in addition as both telephone terminals and computer terminals, by connecting them to the Internet and accessing information they wanted to know about. In the last decade, mobile phones with touch tone keys and displays were rapidly adopted in Japan. They usually used the Roman character input method using QWERTY keyboards, just as westerners use them. When using personal computers or computer terminals with keyboard, most Japanese had little problem with inputting Japanese characters through these terminals.

Ishida uni 3 keypad layout