The war on the fingertips Android Input Method Horizontal Review

Input method of previous life this lifetime with the rapid development of smart phones, as well as large-screen mobile phones in the market dominance of the establishment of the mobile phone gradually abandoned the design of the physical button. However, in this evolution of the mobile phone, the biggest challenge is the various input method software, from the physical button to the capacitive screen touch, change is the keyboard layout of input method, the same is the optimization of the Content association. How to find the most easy-to-use input method in many choices, this problem has been plagued the user, as the saying is not afraid of not discerning, is afraid of goods than goods, comparison method is to verify the most direct method of the quality of things, today I would like to compare the user with the most Easy-to-use input method. Ten years ago, China's mobile phone users were over 200 million, in the first half of 2004, China's short message business approached 100 billion, although in recent years the short-term business into a downward trend, but with the birth of the network of the Forum, blog, microblogging, QQ, such as relying on text for the application of the carrier, increased the user's demand for mobile input method. Since most mobile phones are foreign brands, the built-in input method of mobile phone is more or less inconsistent with Chinese input habits. Therefore, a lot of third-party input software has been produced. Three points of the world and the original, in the Nokia Royal Symbian system also hit that era, relying on the 9 Sudoku physical keyboard Birth of the T9 input method, with its simple ease of use, by the majority of users recognized, at that time the thumb of a family can even make a blind input to the phone. However at that time the input method market is not a single show of the state, Motorola's exclusive Input method Itap Input method, on the basis of T9, added to the inverted stroke recognition function, more optimized stroke input method design, proved the future of China's mobile phone market Unlimited. The era that hasn't introduced the cloud concept, cell phone input method of the font on behalf of the mobile phone's connotation, some of the characters antonyms if the font is not, can only rely on homonym word substitution, resulting in the large capacity of the character of the character font input method, occupy a place in the market, but because there is no T9 that is widely used, So the user volume is not T9 big. With the development of smart phones, the smart machine gradually support Third-party Input method installation, so scraping the PC end of the input method into the mobile phone side of the trend, when the input method of the PC is already a state of contention, facing the mobile phone end of this new continent, each input method manufacturers scrambling to occupy their position, Also formed the mobile phone end of the current method of the trend of flowering. Although the various schools of thought have their own characteristics, but also good and bad, in the face of commonness and characteristics, the most embarrassing is actually the user, user demand is very simple, easy to use on the line, but this seemingly easy to meet, but not easy to satisfy, then the market more common in the end of a few of the input method which can meet the needs of users Let's prove it by experiment. The test of the four input method: Sogou mobile phone Input method, QQ input methods, touch treasure Chinese input, Baidu Mobile Input method, the latest version of the four application. Test software Information test Platform information test project and score specialDo not explain: in order to ensure the fairness of the test, before the test will be four of the application of the cache file all clear, to ensure that the input method does not have any input habits left to ensure that each input method is the original ecological display.