I've preordered my Nokia N900, and I propose an application for Maemo 5 that I've found very useful on my Blackberry for the past few years. It's the autotext app. What it does is allow the user to pre-program a sequence of characters and have the OS replace said characters with another set. For example, my name is never capitalized on my phone, so I made an autotext for when the OS finds me typing (in real time) kent, it automatically changes it to Kent after pressing space after the word. Some other examples of this are the following (which I use, I'm sure many of you will find it very useful and this will increase your typing speed, and overall productivity). Once again, these are all based on my usage.
Original Text Autotexted.
putsig Sincerely, Kent Yousif.
putnum <my personal phone number appears>
putemail1 <puts my first email address, which if i put a 2, it'll show my second. I have many emails>
putaddy <places my address>
ilu I love you
zsmile :) <it's a pain to go into the characters simetimes>
cus see you soon
fb Facebook
these are some of the uses that professionals (and chatters) might want to use. But let's not forget on how it could help us type faster in general.
Original Text Autotexted.
wel we'll
il I'll
ddnt didn't
dnt don't
b be
th the
dsnt doesn't
these may seem like saving a letter here and a letter there, but it really shows when you begin to notice your own typing and how you can save time just by typing Sa and have it change to Samantha. or CUS changes to See you soon. These are all ways that will help the user finish what they're doing on their phone FASTER and save time, battery life, and gets you doing what you need to do sooner.
