Versus Mondays – T9 or Full QWERTY

To build on Versus Mondays from last week lets take a look at the two prevailing keyboard technologies for cell phones, T9 and Full Qwerty. The concept for a full QWERTY keyboard on a cell phone has been around for some time. It was a no brainer to have a full keyboard on a cell phone to allow for easy texting and emailing. The only problem is that a full QWERTY keyboard takes up a lot of real estate on a cell phone. To ease this problem and still have the ability to type fast T9 (predictive text) was created. If you’re not familiar with T9 let me give you a quick intro. T9 allows you to start typing a word and the technology automatically “predicts” the word you’re typing and finishes the word for you. I must say that it’s quite impressive and seems like magic.  Plus the added advantage is that it uses the same basic 9 keys that are on a regular cell phone keypad. So my question to all of you today is which one do you like better and why. Do you prefer the ability to have a full QWERTY keyboard or do you prefer using T9?