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Now, send SMS in your mother tongue
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 25 November 2009, 15:23 IST |
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Bangalore: India has about 400 million plus mobile subscribers (growing by 10 million plus every month). The most widely used features of the mobile phone remain voice and SMS. Among the 400 million plus subscribers, less than 100 million are English literate and not all the English literates use the language to communicate with friends and family as they prefer their mother tongue. To bridge this gap, Tachyon Tech offers a solution for people to SMS each other in their own mother tongue.
The company started working with handset manufacturers on this idea. Meanwhile, market research revealed that there is willingness to pay among individual consumers as well for a product like this. This led to the development of Quillpad Mobile, which is the extension of the well known Indian language transliteration product - Quillpad, into the mobile platform. Quillpad Mobile allows intuitive typing in Indian languages using the standard mobile keypad.
Quillpad Mobile will be made available in all major Indian languages - Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali and Punjabi. The company has started by rolling out the product in Hindi, because Hindi users form its largest user base.
While most handsets come with Hindi fonts, it's unfortunate that support for other Indian language fonts is yet to come on a large scale. However, users need not have support for Indian language fonts on their phone. Quillpad Mobile uses its patent pending rendering technology to support Indian language fonts on handsets that do not come with Indian language fonts bundled into it.