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Seattle resident Franklin Page, 24, has sent the fastest text message using a touch screen mobile phone.
Page set the Guinness World Record in New York on a Samsung Omnia phone using touchscreen technology developed by Swype, a Seattle-based company co-founded by the creator of the widely used T9 predictive text technology.
According to Guinness, Page took just 35.54 seconds to text the phrase, "The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human."
To be fair, competition wasn't stiff. This is a brand new category, a media relations contact said. And yeah, it's a publicity thing. Samsung used the stunt in a recent ad, shown below.
Page isn't just a guy off the street, by the way. He used to work for Swype.
But you've got to admit -- that's some fast texting:
