Textware Solutions Announces Instant Text Mobile – Offering Much Faster Text-Entry on a Palm Powered PDA
Textware Solutions announces Instant Text Mobile for Palm OS, offering a very fast and accurate solution for those who use a PDA for text-entry.
Burlington, MA (PRWEB via MobilityNewswire) May 18,
2005 -- Textware Solutions announces Instant Text Mobile for Palm OS. The new
program offers a very fast and accurate solution for those who use a PDA for
text-entry: composing emails, taking notes or preparing documents. The program
makes text-entry so much easier that it is very likely to encourage many users
to do a larger share of their text-entry work directly on the PDA, rather than
on a desktop computer.
Textware is a leading supplier of solutions for
very fast text-entry, with Instant Text for Windows – the leading text expander
solution in Medical Transcription – and the Fitaly keyboards on Palm Powered and
Windows Mobile PDAs. The Windows version of Instant Text was the first program
to put the power of Textware's proprietary “Jump Ahead” technology at PC users'
fingertips, enabling them to enter only a few letters and then quickly select
desired words and phrases from a list. This same capability is now made
available to those who use Palm OS devices.
“With Instant Text Mobile, a
thought which may take 1/10 of a second to form, three seconds to say, and six
to ten seconds to type will now take just under a second to enter on a PDA,”
said Jean Ichbiah, president of Textware Solutions. “The PDA has always been the
most natural place to take notes and compose emails because it is always with
you. Now it is also one of the quickest and most accurate means of text entry as
Instant Text Mobile delivers a very fast way from thought to text."
With
other input technologies, it is often difficult to keep up while taking notes on
a handheld. Many users end up using cryptic notes and a variety of abbreviations
created on the spot to speed up the process. The resulting documents are often
difficult, if not impossible, to understand afterwards—often by their own
authors.
Instant Text Mobile avoids these problems by letting users enter
fully intelligible words and phrases with only a few letters, while never
requiring users to memorize predefined abbreviations. A user just enters a few
letters and Instant Text flashes choices of complete words and phrases. Thus,
the letters trf, tfo, trfo, tfm, tft, tftion, among others, will produce the
word "transformation" as a choice, and therefore, there is no need to remember
any shortcut. Any of those combinations works and a single tap enters the word
on the PDA.
But words are just one "expansion" by Instant Text. As
letters are being entered, they may also produce a phrase. In an attorney's
glossary, for example, "natc" typed right in the middle of a sentence might
yield a word like "naturalistic" but also the phrase "notwithstanding anything
to the contrary," a phrase identified from the first letters of different words.
The use of phrases results in major keystroke savings. For that reason, the
glossaries supplied with Instant Text Mobile contain thousands of phrases that
are frequently used in everyday letters, memos, and emails: phrases such as “I
would like to receive,” “you are going to,” “on the other hand,” “whether or
not,” and “for your review.” Instant Text Mobile also includes a very
easy-to-use interface, making it simple to add new phrases to a glossary within
seconds.
"Instant Text Mobile offers word completion with a twist,” said
Tanker Bob, a writer and product reviewer for MobileTechReview.com. “The
software can be as simple or as deep as you like. It can simply complete words
as you start them, or you can use your own 'shorthand' to leverage its smart
text-pattern-matching engine and dramatically cut your actual writing time and
effort."
Instant Text Mobile is available at the Textware Solutions www.textware.com web site, for
US$29. An introductory price of $25 applies until the end of September.
About Textware Solutions
Textware Solutions, based in Burlington,
Massachusetts, is the leading producer of solutions for increasing the speed and
accuracy of text entry in desktop computers and handheld devices. The company's
flagship products for mobile devices are the Fitaly virtual keyboards for
Windows Mobile Pocket PC and Palm OS, and FitalyStamp, an overlay keyboard for
Palm OS devices. Both Instant Text for Windows and Instant Text Mobile use the
company's patented “Jump Ahead” technology.
Additional Information –
Demo – Editorial Copies
More information on Instant Text Mobile and a fully
functional demo are available online at the following links:
http://textware.com/itmobile/itmobilemanual.htm
http://textware.com/itmobile/itmobileoptions.htm
http://textware.com/itmobile/itmobilesetup.exe
Journals,
editors, reviewers, Palm web sites and user groups are invited to request a
complimentary editorial registration by email addressed to e-mail protected from
spam bots.
Contact:
Kevin Doel, TalonPR,
Inc.
785-273-9660
e-mail protected from spam bots
# # #
Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/5/prweb241800.htm