$4 Million for Digit Wireless
Wade Roush2/22/08
Lexington, MA-based Digit Wireless, which is marketing a unique keypad invented by ex-Apple designer David Levy to allow faster text messaging, reported this week that it has raised $4 million in additional funding from existing investors Qualcomm and Venrock. The company has also brought in a new CEO, former Telus Communications executive Robert Blumenthal. I wrote a review of Digit’s technology, called Fastap, last May for Technology Review. The system is designed to put an end to triple-typing—the need to tap the keys on a standard mobile phone keypad up to three times to get the letter you want. At Telus, Blumenthal helped to launch the first commercially-available phone with the Fastap keyboard.
Wade Roush is Xconomy's chief correspondent and editor of Xconomy San Francisco. You can e-mail him at wroush@xconomy.com or follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/wroush.
