page_title: Indic computing
section_title: Mobile phones with Numeric keyboards
hierarchical_section_title: Indic computing / Input methods / Mobile phones with Numeric keyboards
caption_attribution_description: English: Nokia 1108 model with Hindi Keypad (introduced in the year 2005)
context_page_description: Indic Computing means "computing in Indic" i.e. Indian Scripts and Languages. It involves developing software in Indic Scripts/languages, Input methods, Localization of computer applications, web development, Database Management, Spell checkers, Speech to Text and Text to Speech applications and OCR in Indian languages.
  Most of the widely used Indic scripts are encoded in Unicode for working on Computers and Internet. As of version 10.0, Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Limbu, Malayalam, Masaram Gondi, Newari, Ol Chiki, Oriya, Sinhala, Tamil and Telugu scripts are encoded and supported. Historically used writing systems like Arwi, Ahom alphabet, Grantha, Khudabadi, Mahajani, Modi alphabet, Siddham script, Syloti Nagri, Tirhuta are also included. Some more Indic scripts are in development and will be included in unicode, for instance Tulu Script.
  A lot of Indic Computing projects are going on. They involve some government sector companies, some volunteer groups and individual people.
context_section_description: Mobile/Hand/cell phone basic models have 12 keys like the plain old telephone keypad. Each key is mapped to 3 or 4 English letters to facilitate data entry in English. For inputting Indian languages with this kind of keypad, there are two ways to do so. First is the Multi-tap Method and second uses visual help from the screen like Panini Keypad.  The primary usage is SMS. 140 characters size used for English/Roman languages can be used to accommodate only about 70 language characters when Unicode Proprietary compression is used some times to increase the size of single message for Complex script languages like Hindi. A research study of the available methods and recommendations of proposed standard was released by  Broadband Wireless Consortium of India (BWCI).
caption: Nokia 1108 Hindi
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