Version 6.0 of Motorola's iTAP text input system for mobile handsets is supposed to adapt to a user’s pattern of communications to predict and suggest entire sentences based on past usage.

The iTAP 6.0 system will become more accurate over time of usage, and aims to make composing entire sentences and paragraphs easier and more personalized.

Just like the well-known T9 text input system, the iTAP system requires only one key touch to select a letter, and also proposes the next word you intend to add to your message or note. By using past text input and the context of where this text was entered, however, the iTAP system now also suggests entire sentences.

According to Neal Campbell, General Manager of the Lexicus Division of Motorola, the company's aim with iTAP 6.0 is to make text messaging from a mobile device keypad simple and efficient so these devices are used as much for business communication as for casual communications.

The iTAP system is designed to be embedded in small handheld devices - not only mobile phones - that require rich text input capabilities, but may lack a full-sized keyboard.

The system also supports over thirty European and Asian languages, and will be running on a variety of common embedded platforms including ARM, MCore, and x86-based products.

The iTAP 6.0 technology is expected to ship early next year in various Motorola mobile handsets.