Textware's latest app speeds text entry on Palm devices

- Gary Thayer, Editor

May 19, 2005 -- (MobileVillage) -- Textware Solutions has announced Instant Text Mobile for Palm OS, a new program that aims to speed up text entry on a PDA, such as for composing emails, taking notes or preparing documents.

Textware is the same company that produces the Fitaly keyboard software for Palm OS and Windows Mobile PDAs. Textware also supplies a Windows version of Instant Text, which the company says is often used in medical transcription.

Instant Text Mobile allows users to enter words and phrases with only a few letters, without requiring users to memorize predefined abbreviations. A user enters only a few letters, and Instant Text flashes choices of complete words and phrases. For example, the letters trf, tfo, trfo, tfm, tft, tftion, among others, will all produce the word "transformation" as a choice. A single tap enters the word on the PDA.

As letters are being entered, they may also produce a phrase. Instant Text Mobile's glossaries 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." 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". The software also allows users to quickly add new phrases to a glossary.

Instant Text Mobile sells for for US $29, with an introductory price of $25 applies until the end of September. The software is available at the Textware Solutions web site, along with a fully functional demo.

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