Press Statements

"A new program could take the frustration out of trying to type words into cell phone keypads."
October 12, 2000

"I was impressed by an off-the-floor demonstration by startup Eatoni, which was showing its superb predictive text entry system. (...) This system uses the telephone keypad more intelligently - and is faster to learn - than other predictive input capabilities I've seen, such as Tegic's T9. Hopefully manufacturers will be clever enough to pick up this or similar input systems."
October 30, 2000

"Eatoni's products make it faster for people to type messages on mobile phones.(...)We believe the system has the potential to double the amount of SMS traffic world-wide."
November 23, 2000

"I tried both (LetterWise and WordWise) and came away extremely impressed."
December 7, 2000

"It's incredibly difficult, time-consuming and frustrating to type text on a cell phone dial pad. But Gutowitz, a cryptographer and chaos mathematician, thinks he's cracked his biggest code yet -- making it easier to type text and Web addresses using a cell phone keypad. [...] If so, he and his tiny start-up Eatoni Ergonomics may have helped dissolve the wireless world's biggest, ugliest wart."
February, 6 2001

Because, while typing into phones sounds like a marginal little concern, it's actually central to the fate of wireless web.
"May 2001"

A US start-up may have found the Holy Grail for text messaging addicts: revolutionary software which solves the problem of typing on a small keypad.
"May 2001"

Take it from the thousands of people who have tried the wireless Web-and hate it: Today's mobile phones weren't designed for anything other than phone calls. These users say the phones' display screens and keypads make reading and browsing a wretched experience. [...] To address the problem, software from Eatoni Ergonomics and T9 Text Input software from America Online subsidiary Tegic Communications will guess which word a user is typing based on the sequence of keys.
February 2001

"Eatoni's software may well be more elegant and compact than the competition, but elegance has never counted for much in marketing. And millions of Europeans, especially teenagers, have shown a tolerance for the kludgy status quo. Still, Gutowitz's drive to improve text entry may one day lead to cell-phone messaging that really works -- even for folks who aren't cell-phone enthusiasts."
e-company February 2001

"Many new mobile phones allow users to send short e-mail messages. But anyone who's tried to type something longer than "hi" on a 12-button keypad is quickly frustrated (push the 4 button twice for "h", three times for "i", etc.)... WordWise software takes less phone memory and makes typing significantly faster. Look for it in some mobiles later this year."
January 2001

"El T9 ha sido hasta ahora la solución de texto predictivo por excelencia, pero este largo reinado podría tocar a su fin con la llegada de nuevas soluciones como LetterWise. (Until now T9 has been the de facto predictive text solution, but its long reign may come to end with the arrival of new solutions like LetterWise). GSMBOX.ES February 2002