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“Budget-Friendly Options Unveiled at MWC 2024 for Phone (2a)!”

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The London-based phone company’s media push largely relies on trickling out information about devices bit by bit. Nothing Phone (2a) certainly fits the bill. While it’s actually the company’s third handset, it’s the aimed squarely at a different demographic than the flagship Phone (1) and Phone (2). After various teases and a handful of official image releases, the Phone (2a) finally saw the light of day (well, the warm glow of a Barcelona night) at MWC 2024. Phone (2a) keeps the Phone (2)’s dual-camera set up, though it’s been moved to the center.

“Revolutionizing TV Text Input: The T9-Inspired Solution by a Startup”

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T9 — the old text input from our trusty Nokia phones from the 1990s — is one of those throwbacks. Direction 9 is a startup that is eager to introduce it to your television, so you can use the directional pad on your remote to enter text. They showed it off at CES, and… I’d be extremely surprised if it ever makes much headway. You have to focus up and down, and you can’t do blind typing,” explains Leon Chang, founder at Direction 9. It seems unlikely that they’d be willing to add 20-50% to its cost just to add a new text input as a feature.