Entertainment

Gizmodo Sets An iPad Typing World Record

Who says they can’t type on an iPad keyboard? Not us! Woody Jang, our US video editor, just set the Guinness World Record for fastest typing speed on an iPad. With one hand, he blazed out the alphabet in 3.93 seconds. The previous record was a snail’s pace of 4.7 seconds.


March 23, 2010
Mobile

Samsung Sets New World Record For Texting In A Commercial

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Samsung’s Omnia II handset was the first phone to feature Swype, the super-fast input method for texting. It’s now officially the world’s fastest way to text, breaking the Guinness World Record with five seconds to spare.