Why does WordWise have a manual mode?
Although WordWise Auto mode is able to correctly produce many names and abbreviations with no extra taps, it is not guaranteed to produce the correct result if you try to enter something that is not a word. No predictive text algorithm can, because the things people want to type are frequently completely unpredictable. Other predictive-text approaches (such as T9®, iTap® and eZiText®) force the user to enter unusual text using the laborious multi-tap method. Unfortunately, multi-tap requires 2.2 taps per correct letter and so is extremely slow. WordWise does not force the user to use Multi Tap. Instead, you can quickly switch into WordWise Manual mode for a word. In WordWise Manual, you still enter shifted letters as with the Auto mode, but you use the # key to immediately correct any letter that is displayed incorrectly. Thus WordWise Manual is like a combination of WordWise Auto and LetterWise. We took the list of attendees from the 2000 Mobile Messaging and Internet Applications con
