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by wodenokoto 562 days ago
Back in the T9 days, it was not uncommon for Japanese to be faster on a cellphone than on a keyboard.

The input algorithm used in Japan wasn't T9, but very similar to the kana-keyboard available on iPhones today, and the prediction (both kana-to-kanji and next word) was quite good as far as I remember.