Italian Author Risks ‘Blackberry Thumb’; Writes Novel on Cell Phone

By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews

No kidding. Putting his commute time to and from work to good use, while risking ‘Blackberry Thumb’, an Italian writer wrote a full-length novel.

Robert Bernocco, an IT professional took advantage of his travel time by writing a 384-page science fiction novel, Compagni di Viaggo (Fellow Travellers), on his Nokia using the phone’s T9 typing system.

“It really was a time management issue. He had a book in him and really wanted to write it but found he just didn’t have the time to sit and do it on a computer,” said Gail Jordan, PR director at the book’s publishers, Lulu.com. Source: New Zealand Herald

We Say: Not only that, he wrote it on a Nokia 6630, which is a 12-key phone, not one with a QWERTY keyboard. And he used T9 predictive text, not text message shorthand.