Not The Worst News just tested the new Blackberry Z10, which lacks the physical keyboard that has made Blackberry so popular among 70-year-old former typewriter-ribbon-manufacturing-executives.
Trying to type “this is a test” on the text messaging app lead to something like “thbsijk eitnz ein berliner.”
Fortunately, the helpful clerk at the Canadian telecommunications store pointed out that if you swipe upward, the device will actually predict words that you may want to type.
So swipey swipey, take 2! And the predictive keyboard predicted the following sentence:
“This is terrible.”
3 Worse Things A Smart Phone Could Display Than “This Is Terrible”
1. The entire movie “This is 40.” Forget how bad the movie is, and consider that $40,000 is what you may have just paid to your data provider to watch the movie if you were roaming in the Dominican Republic.
2. Angry birds literally pecking their way out of the glass from inside the phone like the movie the Birds. Why are the birds so angry? Because new technology prevents them from attacking people in phone booths.
3. Anything other than “This is a test,” because if people are going in a store to test a phone, we’ll put our money on that’s what they will write, without investing in any fancy predictive language algorithms or artificial intelligence technology.
