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April 28, 2005
Arttu Harkki Sets Texting World Record
Former World Text Champion Arttu Harkki used a Treo 650 smartphone to type the fastest-ever email on the move using a QWERTY keyboardn - using a single thumb.
Harkki's mighty uni-thumb went supernova as he bashed out the following message:
"The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell (UK), who filed his patent for the telephone on 14 February 1876 at the New York Patent Office, USA. The first intelligible call occurred in March 1876 in Boston, Massachusetts, when Bell phoned his assistant in a nearby room and said 'Come here Watson, I want you.'"
After several attempts, Le Roux announced that Harkki had managed to complete the message in just 2 minutes 22.9 seconds. Huzzah! A new world record!
From: Mike Slocombe, "Treo 650 Sets Speed-Typing Guinness World Record," Digital Lifestyles, 27 April 05.
http://digital-lifestyles.info/display_page.asp?section=platforms&id=2152
Posted by sjc at April 28, 2005 12:19 PM
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