The future of mobile text entry?

Silicon.com today had an article about tx4u - which is being touted as the next generation of predictive text by its creators AirTx. It predicts words, rather than just characters, and allegedly learns your vocabulary and common word patterns.

Sounds cool if it works, it’s fairly obvious (I think) that predictive text would be improved if it took some of the surrounding context into account when choosing the most likely word, and if this goes a step further than that, then all the better.

Unfortunately, the demo available on the AirTx website doesn’t really convince me, as it doesn’t show the learning process and asks me to just assume that it can guess exactly what it says I want to type… at which point it works perfectly! I guess they’re marketing it at device manufacturers rather than consumers, but it’s a shame there isn’t a version I can download onto my 7650 or somesuch.

Update: Okay, just noticed there are advanced demos that make it all a bit more believable, but I’d still like to play with it myself (or is it that I’d like to have it to use :-)