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Look, I don’t want to sound like a baby or anything, so a huge congrats to Pedro Matias of Portugal for breakin’ the texting speed World Record. Congrats out to our pair of ladies from the US for their performance as well – walking home with 2nd place $20,000 heavier is nothing to laugh at.
What is laughable, however, is the way the contest was set up.
Watch the video below, and check out the handsets they’re using; see the QWERTY keyboards? We’re big fans of QWERTY keyboards on handsets around these parts and all — but like our buddies over at Engadget, we just don’t think you can call that “texting” in the competitive sense. This is just typing on a smaller keyboard. Where’s the limit? If I hook up a Bluetooth keyboard to my smartphone, is it still texting as long as I send an SMS?
Shenanigans. Yeah, I said it.
http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/mnr_lib/200910/players/player-single.swf?job=41905