The iPhone&#39;s Future Predictive Keyboard Makes Certain Keys
Larger Without You Ever Noticing (Updated)S  Apple has been
granted a patent for a predictive text keyboard on mobile
devices that will automatically increase the size of touch
targets without actually doing so visually. Although this
patent, which Apple Insider dug up, is bit confusing in concept,
it's execution makes sense. In fact, the idea of implementing
this idea without visual indicators actually makes this whole
idea much more functional.  Imagine you're trying to type the
word xenotype on your smartphone. What if, after a few letters,
your phone knew that's the word (or words) you may going for,
but doesn't want to be too invasive. Instead, it quietly
enlarges the radius of the trigger zone for the next possible
letters in succession, but doesn't visually tip you off to this
in any way. So as you reach for the O key and your finger
accidentally hits P or I, the phone will still recognize it as
O.  Surely there will still be a way to intui