Seems like more of a human mistake – like one of the designers used a stock image of a clock spiral that was AI-generated…
Seems like more of a human mistake – like one of the designers used a stock image of a clock spiral that was AI-generated…
Think you misunderstand me. Long before texting was a thing, landline phones (with rotary dials!) also had letters associated with digits. This layout was later transferred to keypads, which in turn became the SMS layout.
I bet this is also why old-timey phone numbers encoded the first digits with letters. The US had the famous ABC2/DEF3/… system that’s still displayed on most keypads, and the former Soviet Union mapped the first letters of the Russian alphabet (skipping З to avoid confusion with 3)…
Not necessarily – the story might have described a beta version of the OS, in which these interactions worked differently.