Study says iPhone not great for txt messaging
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by Nicholas Deleon on November 14, 2007

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The iPhone “may not be suitable for heavy text use.” That’s the end-of-the-day result on a recent study comparing users’ text messaging abilities. The study, carried out by User Centric, compared iPhone users, QWERTY-based cellphone users and regular old multi-tap phone users. It found that iPhone users were able to text, generally, as fast as their QWERTY counterparts, they made a whole lot more mistakes in both text entry and in the messages they actually sent out.

I gotta say, I’m not entirely surprised by the results. I’ve only used the iPhone at the Apple Store but could tell it wasn’t the best texting device. Comedian Louis CK, a big fan of Apple, has a running gag where he hates on the iPhone’s texting ability. It’s pretty funny; go see him live.

Direct Comparison of iPhone and Hard-Key QWERTY Phone Owners Indicates Higher
Text Entry Error Rate for iPhones
[User Centric Press Release]

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  • My response is who cares? Since mobile devices are used for quick, shortcut type imprecise communications anyway, what difference does these small error rates make anyway – not that Apple couldn’t fix some of texting problems with copy/cut and paste and keyboard standardization across iphone aps. But what companies and how many are checking error rates of their crack-berry road warriors?

  • Dang, now I hate my iPhone.

  • orly? srsly? kthxbye.

    yeah, i just call people on the phone rather than text now.

    Remember that whiskey comment from the WTF comment? It is taking effect. More not-so-funny snark to come.

    You did ask for it.

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