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This Is “The Moment” For A Samsung Android QWERTY Slider
4:16AM 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 »
Software
The Easy Way To Add An Onscreen Keyboard To Your Palm Pre
3:16AM 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 »
Peripherals
Hunt And Peck Keyboard Thinks It’s Helping, But It Really Isn’t
1:30PM 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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3:22PM 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 »
Nokia Launches 6760 Slide Out Of Nowhere
3:22PM 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 »
Design
Samsung’s New Smartphone QWERTY Idea: Keep Trying, Guys
2:00PM 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 »
Peripherals
Lenovo On The Slow, Painful Evolution Of Keyboards
8:36PM John Herrman | The Lenovo T400 series, aside from its occasional tussles with heavy machinery, doesn’t immediately stand out in the mid-size, high-end laptop crowd. That is, until you try to type on one. More »
Gadgets
Odyssey Keyboard Grips Combine Love Of Biking, Efficient Text Input
11:20PM John Herrman | I’m not sure how much overlap there is between the BMX and technophile crowds, but at just $US10, I like to think even the surliest curb-hopper could appreciate a QWERTY (well, QWGTSU, really) handlebar grip. $10. [Gadget Lab] More »
Phones
Samsung U750’s Dynamic Keypad Takes It Two Ways
8:45PM John Herrman | The U750 is your standard free-on-contract feature phone—except for one thing: when the dual-flip-action display is rotated and folded into landscape mode, the keypad buttons switch assignments (and looks!) to create a QWERTY layout. Witchcraft! More »
Phones
Someone Says This Is Samsung’s New AMOLED Touchscreen Phone
10:10AM Adrian Covert | PhoneDog says a tipster sent them this image of the Samsung a877—a non-smartphone—with a 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen, slideout, QWERTY keyboard and a dash of attractiveness. More »
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