T9 Text Output Introduced to Ease Script Language Communications Experience; New Styles Also Make Messaging More Fun.SEATTLE & BARCELONA, Spain -- Tegic, a division of AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , today launched T9 Text Output, a natural extension and complement to popular T9 Text Input software, which enables advanced font and language rendering capabilities for text-enabled mobile phones and personal electronic devices. Together, T9 Text Input and T9 Text Output offer users a complete mobile messaging solution. Available in more than 25 languages, including bi-directional languages, such as Arabic and Hebrew, this advanced font and language rendering technology helps ensure a better messaging and mobile communications experience for users of even the most complex languages. By more accurately presenting complex script languages, T9(R) Text Output enables users to better convey the meaning of their messages. In addition, T9 Text Output software allows mobile users to be more expressive, enabling them to personalize messaging with friends and family. End-users can style the text they enter into their device. Font formats include bold, underline, italic, overstrike (1) To type over an existing character. (2) A character with a line through it. , superscript Any letter, digit or symbol that appears above the line. For example, 10 to the 9th power is written with the 9 in superscript (109). Contrast with subscript. and subscript. Users can change the size and style of any of the fonts available in T9 Text Output software, or any font style A typeface variation (normal, bold, italic, bold italic). the user has downloaded onto their mobile device. "As we strive to make the mobile experience better, faster and more fun, we will continue to offer mobile users the tools they need to enjoy mobile communications," said Bill Schwebel, president, Tegic Communications. "T9 Text Output is the right extension for us and complements the best-in-class T9 messaging software we are known for worldwide." T9 Text Output is available for T9-enabled devices, and also supports text entered using multi-tap on a phone keypad, a hard or soft QWERTY keyboard The standard English language typewriter keyboard. Q, W, E, R, T and Y are the letters on the top left, alphabetic row. Designed by Christopher Sholes, who invented the typewriter, the keyboard layout was organized to prevent people from typing too fast and jamming the keys. , a four-way cursor control, or while using third-party text entry software. In addition, T9 Text Output enables users to embed and animate objects, such as graphics, pictograms and emoticons within their messages. End-users benefit from a more consistent language implementation and ease-of-use when writing and sending multi-media messages. With T9 Text Output, handset makers no longer need to keep up with language rendering rules, complicated writing systems and ever-changing character encoding (character) character encoding - (Or "character encoding scheme") A mapping of binary values to code positions and back; generally a 1:1 (bijective) mapping. In the case of ASCII, this is generally a f(x)=x mapping: code point 65 maps to the byte value 65, and vice versa. standards. T9 Text Output software is now available for handset makers to integrate into their text-enabled mobile phones. For users new to T9, check out http://www.textfast.T9.com. See Tegic at 3GSM in Barcelona. For demos of the latest T9(R) offerings, including T9 Text Output, T9(R) Text Input, XT9(TM) Mobile Interface and Chinese T9(R) Phrasal Text Input (PTI PTI - Portable Tool Interface ) software, visit Tegic at the B Hotel just across Placa Espanya from the 3GSM Congress Hall. About T9(R) Text Output Software T9 Text Output, which includes licensed technology from nCore, Ltd. (http://www.ncore.fi), a leader in embedded localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. and user interface software, provides advanced rendering capabilities for complex scripts and bidirectional The ability to move, transfer or transmit in both directions. languages on text-enabled phones and mobile devices. T9 Text Output also offers users multiple font sizes and styles, as well as bold, underline and italics, in more than 25 languages. About Tegic, a Division of AOL Wireless Tegic is a leading provider of enabling software for mobile data services, including market-leading T9(R) software. A wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of AOL, Inc., Tegic was founded in 1995 to develop and market communication technologies for the telecommunications and computing industries. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington (U.S.A.) and has offices in London, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul, Beijing, Bangalore and Sao Paulo. Tegic is on the Web at http://www.tegic.com. |
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