-- Available in 75 Languages, T9 Text Input is Becoming a Popular Way to Spread Holiday Cheer around the World via SMS and Charitable Giving --
LONDON, UK., December 17, 2008 – The holidays are finally here and what better way to spread the holiday cheer than with a text message to your friends and family. People around the world are sending the season’s greetings via email, IM and SMS mobile messaging, and with Nuance Communication Inc.’s (NASDAQ: NUAN) T9® Text Input it’s easy, with support for upwards of 75 languages worldwide on a broad range of handsets.
Nuance’s T9 predictive text makes saying “Happy Holidays” easier than ever for a variety of languages, including:
• Simplified Chinese: “jié rì kuài lè”
• Hindi: “Chuttiyo Ki Shubh kaamnayein”
• Arabic: “Kullu Sana wa Antum bi-Khayr”
• Indonesian: “Selamat Hari Raya”
• Portuguese: “Festas Felizes”
• Russian: “S Praznikom”
• Spanish: “Felices Fiestas”
• French: “Joyeuses Fêtes”
And with word completion and next word prediction, sending your friends and family warm holiday wishes becomes easier each time you hit send. If your phone doesn’t support the languages above, just add the words to your predictive text dictionary to say “Happy Holidays” in a variety of languages.
T9 is the industry-leading predictive text solution enabling text-based mobile communications services, making mobile phone keypads easier to navigate by allowing for one simple key press per letter – placing the power of a full QWERTY keyboard in the standard nine keys on mobile phones.
Charitable Giving Made Easy through Text
It’s also possible to support many charities with text messaging this holiday season. Organisations are increasingly tapping into SMS as a means to providing mobile users with an easy way to contribute to their favourite charities. A few ideas include:
Women’s Aid
To donate £3 to Women’s Aid simply text the word “TTWA” to 84858.
Messages charged at standard rate.
http://www.womensaid.org.uk Sight Savers
To make a one-off donation, simply text the words “SIGHT ONCE” to the number 87070.
For each text, your network provider will charge £1.50 to your next bill. From this charge, Sight Savers will be given £1 to help support its work in the developing world.
http://www.sightsavers.org Breast Cancer Care
Text “PINK” to 83338 to download your very own pink ribbon and make a valuable £1.50 donation to Breast Cancer Care, plus the usual cost of a text message.
http://www.breastcancercare.org.uk To learn more about the entire T9 product family in Europe, visit the new European pages on
http://www.t9.com/eu
