Touchscreen devices are fast making a mark for themselves in the global market. According to a report by Strategy Analytics, touchscreen devices are growing at a pace of almost 30 percent a year and will reach approximately 500 million devices by 2014. With the growing trend of touchscreens, people are becoming finicky about the ways of sending quick text messages and emails, instant messaging and other activities. Keeping all this in mind, Nuance has announced the launch of Nuance T9 Trace, an uninterrupted touch input technology designed exclusively for touchscreen phones.
With T9 Trace, users can key in words faster, simply by gliding their finger from one letter to another either on the touchscreen QWERTY keypad or the 12-key keypad without using a stylus or any other tool. Nuance T9 Trace grants mobile device manufacturers the latest in continuous touch input accessible with an array of mobile phones they present in the market, and will be available as an addition to Nuance XT9’s text capabilities.
Michael Thompson, senior vice president and general manager, Nuance Mobile commented on the efficacy of Nuance T9 Trace by saying that, “Touchscreen devices are experiencing explosive growth, but there is high consumer demand to make text entry easier on virtual keypads. Nuance T9 Trace not only makes text input fast and easy by gliding your finger from one letter to another, but it also gives our partners an innovative way to differentiate their touchscreen phone portfolio.”
As Nuance T9 Trace has been conceived so as to combine directly with Nuance XT9, Nuance presents its handset manufacturer associates considerable and distinctive efficiencies in device amalgamation times, memory usage and global language support. These features in accordance with the newly launched Nuance T9 Write handwriting technology allow Nuance partners to control vibrant yet effortlessly prognostic input technology suite, thus offering them the ability to bring multimodal input to more devices. Moreover, as the full Nuance T9 portfolio aides more than 80 global languages, OEMs get a chance to present brilliant multimodal input experiences in both settled and upcoming markets.
The launch of Nuance T9 Trace has added to the portfolio of insidious mobile speech and predictive input solutions. Nuance’s mobile portfolio is aimed at changing the level of interaction users have with their mobile phones while texting, mailing, calling or using the web browser. The availability and pricing for T9 Trace is yet to be announced.