GSMA Announced the Global Champion of the 2009 Mobile Innovation Global Award - CooTek
TouchPal soft keyboard on G1 (Google Android). (PRNewsFoto/CooTek)
BARCELONA SPAIN
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Last week at the Mobile
World Congress 2009, the GSMA announced the winner of the 2009 Mobile
Innovation Global Award. After a year-long search and four regional
tournaments, soft keyboard for touchscreens supplier CooTek has been named the
Global Champion of this most influential innovation award in the mobile
industry.
CooTek's winning innovation is called TouchPal, a soft keyboard for
touchscreen devices. Its mistyping correction and many other unique
technologies make TouchPal one of the most popular keyboard software in the
world, with more than 2,000,000 downloads last year. CooTek claims that an
experienced user can type as fast as 400 characters/min. on a touchscreen with
TouchPal.
Touchscreen phones are getting popular these years. But typing on
touchscreen is no fun. Many iPhone users, for example, have complaints about
its onscreen keyboard. Due to the small buttons and the lack of
key-pressing feedback, users are more likely to press wrong keys on a virtual
keyboard than on a real keyboard.
TouchPal was carefully designed to resolve these issues by introducing
many breakthrough technologies. One example is the impressive mistyping
correction technology -- even if a user mistypes all the letters in a word, it
can still predict the correct word. One can thus type much faster without even
looking at the keyboard. Another eye-catching feature is called "mixed
language input" -- for example, a user can input German and English at the
same time, without switching languages. TouchPal also recognizes gestures on
the touchscreen to quickly input uppercase letters or symbols.
The continuous innovation and the significant user impact of this piece of
innovative work impressed the judges' panel consisting of the senior
executives from mobile operators, industry suppliers and venture capital
organizations. TouchPal supports 20+ languages and is available on Windows
Mobile and Google Android phones. End users can download and try it for free
from CooTek's website: http://www.cootek.com
About GSMA Mobile Innovation Global Award
The Mobile Innovation Global Award was created by the GSMA to encourage
breakthrough technology, applications and services in the mobile industry by
bringing together smaller companies developing innovative mobile products,
industry investors from leading venture capital firms, and senior figures from
mobile operators and leading global brands. The distinguished judging panel
includes senior executives from well-known mobile operators, industry
suppliers and venture capital organizations.
