Letters are arranged to optimize text input in a particular language (English, for example).

For this and any other text inputs, the phone provides several options.

It is used by default to interpret the text input to the interpreter console.

It can be distinguished from other means of text input, such as handwriting and speech recognition.

A great deal of programming went into parsing the player's text input.

Phones may also be made with a hardware keyboard for text input.

Does Apple really think that pen-based text input will ever be used when a keyboard is available.

Android has supported speech recognition for text input since version 2.1.

This worked in a similar manner to predictive text input on a cellular phone.

A sliding style keyboard, as of Late 2010, holds the world speed record for text input into a mobile phone.