Check out the new EQ3 QWERTY Keyboard by Eatoni. It uses the familiar QWERTY layout, adapted to a mobile phone keypad. It will transform any phone with a regular keypad into a smart phone, by squeezing a QWERTY keyboard onto a regular mobile phone keypad. Eatoni does this compression very carefully to get the maximum value out of each of your keystrokes.

Eatoni said "Most people turn off basic predictive text systems since they just don't work very well. However EQ3 changes all that. Never again will you write "call me" and have it come up "call of" since standard predictive systems can't tell the difference between "of" and "me". Never again will "gone home" come up "good good". With EQ3, if you write "call me", it comes up "call me"."

Don't believe me? Take a look at their demo page. If you happen to have a Symbian phone, you can buy their EQ3 Email software (USD13.50) and you are entitled to get a free EQ3 keyboard for your Nokia 668X (if only you have one). The special EQ3 keyboard is the extended work did by the original designer of QWERTY, Christopher Latham Scholes. Another is their extended version of the keyboard design, EQ6 which could be used to make laptops with full sized keys, completely touch typable and no bigger than a paperback. With the EQ3 keyboard, this sort of collision occurs about 1/3 as often. With the EQ6 keyboard, it occurs 1/60th as often. Both EQx versions can be operated in two different modes, LetterWise and WordWise.

• LetterWise mode will generally appeal to people who don't like standard predictive text. LetterWise is a WYTIWYG system: What you type is what you get. Hit the key with the letter you want. If it doesn't come up, hit "Next" until it does. That's all you need to know.
• WordWise mode provides backward compatibility for people familiar with standard dictionary-based predictive text.

[via redferret]