SEATTLE- Tegic Communications, a company that specializes in text entry solutions for wireless devices, signed a licensing agreement with NEC Corp., which allows NEC to integrate the company’s T9 Text Input software into its wireless phones.
Tegic’s T9 Text Input software allows mobile phone users to enter words with one key press per letter on their telephone or wireless device keypad. The software compares the key presses with an internal linguistic database to determine the correct word.
NEC last week introduced a new Global System for Mobile communications handset in China-the DB2100-that makes use of Tegic’s software.
The DB2100 is the first handset to incorporate the Chinese language version of T9 Text Input, said Tegic. T9 Text Input supports Simplified and Traditional stroke-based Chinese, as well as phonetic Pinyin and BoPoMoFo text input.
Tegic also announced it raised $10 million in private capital from Oak Investment Partners, Voyager Capital, Northwest Venture Associates, Fluke Venture Capital and Kirlan Venture Capital.
