Pedro Matias Sets New Texting Record At Mobile World Cup 70
Pedro Matias showed off his mad txtin sklz at this year's Mobile World Cup and managed to set a new record for "fastest, most accurate" texts as determined by the event's corporate owners. "history was made when Portugal's Pedro Matias set the new World's Record for texting by typing a 264-character text in just 1 minute 59 seconds (besting the previous record by 23 seconds). Of course, each Mobile World Cup must have its share of controversy -- in this case, Engadget Mobile's very own Chris Ziegler led a silent protest during the awards ceremony. The group was reportedly upset over the use of QWERTY phones (the LG enV3 in this case) to break the record."
Times change and we... (Score:3, Insightful)
... go into them kicking and screaming.
Tron was denied a chance at the Best Effects oscar because AMPAS thought computers equated to cheating.
Now find a movie that gets that award that *doesn't* use CGI.
New tech makes old achievements irrelivant. Get used to it.
Re:Who is the bigger loser? (Score:3, Insightful)
Right, and that's being said by the guy who has a link to Droidipedia in his sig...
Seriously, this is an impressive accomplishment. Many impressive accomplishments are about essentially arbitrary things. It isn't substantially different than who can run the fastest mile, or get the most home-runs, or even be the first person to prove some theorem. Difficult accomplishments are impressive and interesting precisely because of the difficulty. Which ones we value and which ones are described as the sort of thing done by a "loser" are essentially arbitrary standards constructed by society.
Who cares? (Score:1, Insightful)
Some old guy with a Morse key can blow him away :-)
Doesn't seem that impressive (Score:3, Insightful)
264 characters in two minutes? That's individual characters... 264 individual characters? 264 key presses in 2 minutes? That's about two key presses a second. Big deal?
Re:not that fast (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Who cares? (Score:3, Insightful)
Yeah, but the Morse guy is using one button. That means he's cheating!
Apple might have been on to something after all...