HTC patent hints at tilt-and-text tech

Chances are good that you’re already pretty happy with the way you send text messages on your mobile phone. Whether you’re using an on-screen virtual keyboard, numeric keypad or full QWERTY keyboard, text messaging isn’t exactly a difficult task. But, that hasn’t stopped HTC from applying for a patent on a new tilt-and-text technology. By using the accelerometers in an HTC smartphone, the new technology would allow the user to enter text by holding down a key and tilting the handset in a particular direction.

The idea is to give the user more options per key, without necessarily increasing the number of physical keys. The patent would have future HTC customers typing out text messages by tilting their device, which HTC claims is “intuitive, convenient, and fast for inputting the character.”

We’re not sure we’ll ever see this patent make it to production, but you never know in what might happen in this wacky mobile world we live in.

Find the HTC patent here.

[USPTO via: WMPowerUser]