iTAP languages on Razr V3

I have just recently learned about the predictive input language options for
my Motorola Razr V3, which is called iTAP.

My phone has British English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch,
Turkish and Portuguese. I would, however, like to add Russian, Polish and
Ukrainian iTAPs to the phone, if at all possible. Thus, would anybody be
able to explain to me how I could do this?

I stress that I am not looking to download new language for the phone's
operations, just that I need the input languages for SMS. Incidentally, my
Siemens A55 had only a few operating languages, but many more input
languages for SMS. Most of them were predictive, using T9, but some were
not.

The ideal would be to have the desired languages in predictive form, but I
am willing to also settle with just getting the necessary alphabets --
Cyrillic, Polish variant -- if possible.

Lastly, what is Tap Extended? I saw this option as well, but I am not quite
sure what it means or does.

Any and all information would be greatly appreciated.

CR

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Motorola division iTap.
AOL division owns Tegic or T-9

Compitition is good. I prefer T-9...


http://www.tegic.com/

T9 ® Text Input for Keypad Devices
Market-leading text input software drives increased messaging through
its predictive and adaptive capabilities. T9 is available with
specialized language engines for Alphabetic, Chinese, Korean and
Japanese languages.

Alphabetic T9 offers fast and easy communication.
Chinese T9 supports both Simplified and Traditional Chinese as well as
the nuances of distinctive dialects.
PTI, **the next generation of Chinese T9 includes phrase completion
along with other advanced features.
Korean T9's popular Chun-Ji-In keypad layout make it easy for users to
take advantage of it's many features.
Japanese T9 enables users to quickly and easily enter Kana letters,
which your device can then convert to Midashigo.



http://www.tegic.com/press_view.html...e_num=55254323




SEATTLE, WA (U.S.A.) and LONDON, U.K., 8 December 2004 Tegic
Communications, a leading provider of predictive text input software
and a wholly owned subsidiary of America Online, Inc., today
revealed....

Motorola Introduces New and Innovative iTAP™ Version 6.0 Text Input
Solution for Mobile Handsets

Lexicus Division of Motorola to Expand Predictive Text Input Solutions
for Mobile Handset Messaging Applications.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., - 10 December 2003 -- The Lexicus Division of
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT), a leading provider of text input software
solutions, today announced the availability of iTAP™ 6.0 Intelligent
Text Entry System.

iTAP 6.0 is a new text input method for mobile handsets that adapts to
a user's pattern of communications to reliably predict and suggest
entire sentences based on past usage. The iTAP 6.0 system becomes more
accurate over time and makes composing entire sentences and paragraphs,
intuitive, easy, and personalized.

The iTAP system requires only one key touch to select a letter, and
also proposes the next word you intend to add to your message or note.
By using past text input and the context of where this text was
entered, iTAP 6.0 software goes far beyond simply remembering unique
words, slang and abbreviations and suggests entire sentences.


http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itprnn/itap/

Some notes on iTap / T9 / "predictive text"

....iTAP and T9 are two different products, and compete with each other.
T9 is created by Tegic, a company in Seattle, and is used on most Nokia
phones. iTAP is a product of a division of Motorola in Silicon Valley.
For a list of differences between iTap and T9, see bottom of page.

The "iTap/T9" code for English encodes the characters [A-Z] into the
characters [2-9] using this mapping:


sub encode {
s/[ABC]/2/g;
s/[DEF]/3/g;
s/[GHI]/4/g;
s/[JKL]/5/g;
s/[MNO]/6/g;
s/[PQRS]/7/g;
s/[TUV]/8/g;
s/[WXYZ]/9/g;

[This mapping is the one that has been used on telephones for decades.]
The patented T9 system uses a dictionary (does it also use a general
language model?) to decode the string back into english characters. In
the event of any ambiguity, the user uses scroll commands (embodied on
one or more other keys) to select the desired word from a list offered
by the machine.