T9 was copied from Benefon, a smaller Finnish mobile company. Some of my friends had their phones.
EDIT:
Or at least they brought phones with that earlier to the market. Wikipedia claims it was invented by "Tegic".
Being good at developing new stuff == being good at copying new stuff and quickly delivering to mainstream markets. See also: Apple, Inc; Microsoft, Inc; etc etc etc.
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T9 was copied from Benefon, a smaller Finnish mobile company. Some of my friends had their phones. EDIT: Or at least they brought phones with that earlier to the market. Wikipedia claims it was invented by "Tegic".
Tegic Communications, which is now a subsidiary of Nuance.
They still sell T9 even today.
Being good at developing new stuff == being good at copying new stuff and quickly delivering to mainstream markets. See also: Apple, Inc; Microsoft, Inc; etc etc etc.