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HTC’s MyTouch 4G Slide Has Serious Camera Chops

2:02PM June 28, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

The iPhone 4 takes fantastic pictures, for a phone. But over on T-Mobile in the U.S., HTC’s upcoming myTouch 4G Slide promises to be the first phone since that takes better pictures and doesn’t suck at, well, everything else. More »


The Presentation Laser Pointer Gets A Backlit 72-Key QWERTY Upgrade

8:00AM December 6, 2010 | Jack Loftus

Power Point presentations and their ilk are evil, nasty things, and will continue to glaze eyeballs over for years to come, sure, but as long as the presenter’s tools stay cool we’ll be all right, right? More »


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T-Mobile G2 Actually Has A 800MHz Processor, But Runs Android 2.2

1:58PM September 2, 2010 | Casey Chan

Looks like the T-Mobile G2 will actually have an 800MHz processor instead of the 1GHz Snapdragon we were expecting. Which will disappoint the number hungry among us, but I’ll wait to play with it before I write off an otherwise excellent looking phone. In better news, Android 2.2 and Flash 10.1 is a definite go though. [T-Mobile Scoop via Engadget] More »


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Pelikon MorphPad Combines A Morphing QWERTY With A Touchpad

3:59AM March 2, 2010 | Mark Wilson

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In the current smartphone market, you need to choose between LCD touchscreens (incredible UI versatility) and real QWERTY buttons (tactile feedback). But the MorphPad offers a third choice that’s somewhere in between. More »


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Swype Vs QWERTY: FIGHT!!!!!

1:53AM November 25, 2009 | Mark Wilson

QWERTY is pretty much the king of smartphone text input. But there’s a new challenger on the horizon. It’s called Swype, it works with one-hand input and, yeah, it is pretty fast. More »


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This Is “The Moment” For A Samsung Android QWERTY Slider

4:16AM October 8, 2009 | Sean Fallon

It appears that Samusng has dropped the InstinctQ branding on their upcoming Android-powered QWERTY slider to something that sounds like a lyric in a cheesy ballad. At any rate, more details about the upcoming Sprint phone have been revealed. More »


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The Easy Way To Add An Onscreen Keyboard To Your Palm Pre

3:16AM September 1, 2009 | John Herrman

To the chagrin of devoted hard QWERTY enthusiast, and to the joy of people who think it’s dumb to have to slide out an entire keypad just to type the letters “OK”, the Pre got its first onscreen keyboard last week. One problem! The installation process was complicated, dangerous and intimidating so I recommended most Pre-ers wait for a simple installer. More »


Hunt And Peck Keyboard Thinks It’s Helping, But It Really Isn’t

1:30PM July 24, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Say, for some reason, you’ve never encountered the QWERTY keyboard layout we’ve used in the US and UK for nearly 150 years. This Hunt and Peck keyboard think it’s helping by reorganising the keys alphabetically, but trust us, it’s not. More »


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Nokia Launches 6760 Slide Out Of Nowhere

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3:22PM July 22, 2009 | Nick Broughall

Wow, not sure where this came from. Okay, it came from Finland, but whatever. Nokia’s 6760 features a slide out qwerty keypad, push email and social networking built into the device. Plus, the buttons look squishy. More »


Samsung’s New Smartphone QWERTY Idea: Keep Trying, Guys

2:00PM July 9, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Samsung filed a patent for this avian-looking smartphone concept: Two spring-loaded half-keyboards burst from the sides of the phone, which in theory provides both a larger keyboard and more screen space, since hands are out of the way. In theory. More »