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ARE you sick of repeatedly poking the tiny keys on your cellphone to write
text messages, infuriated when the phone wrongly predicts what word you鈥檙e
entering, or driven mad by touch screens that convert handwriting into
gibberish?

A new British company called Co-operwrite claims to have the solution:
one-button text entry. Its system uses a navigation 鈥渞ocker switch鈥� to quickly
let you enter letters.

To use the system, called nScribe, you have to visualise a lower-case letter
then 鈥渄raw鈥� it by rocking the key left, right, up or down. To draw a lower-case
鈥渃鈥�, for example, the control is rocked left, then down and then right. The
screen displays vertical and horizontal strokes in step with finger movements.
Rocking the switch up again changes the displayed 鈥渃鈥� to an 鈥渙鈥�. Rocking down
and to the right displays an 鈥淟鈥�, down and up makes a 鈥渧鈥�, and so on.

Co-operwrite of Skelmersdale, Lancashire, tested the system on students and
found many could enter letters correctly first time, and far more quickly than
they could using ordinary multiple-keypress systems. Inventor Geoff Gay says:
鈥淲e can talk until we are blue in the face to people who have not tried
it鈥攂ut after five seconds of use they see it works really well.鈥�

The software doesn鈥檛 need a dictionary or a personal handwriting profile, so
it takes up only 25K of a cellphone or PDA鈥檚 memory. The first practical use of
the system will be in the new generation of games cellphones expected on the
market later this year. Investors have already pumped 拢1 million into
developing the system.