QWERTY keyboard for mobiles
p2pnet.net News:- Is it possible to make a QWERTY keyboard fit within the size constraints of a traditional mobile phone”
Yes – if you use SureType, says its developer, Research In Motion.
The BlackBerry 7100 Series handsets are the first wireless devices to feature SureType with large, “optimally placed” keys that allow one-handed or two-handed operation.
Each key has a maximum of two letters and the letters are aligned in a standard QWERTY layout.
The keyboard works in conjunction with a real-time software system that incorporates a large word database (about 35,000 words initially plus the user’s address book), “linguistic intelligence and advanced learning capabilities to automatically interpret keystrokes and recognize words with a high degree of accuracy,” says Canada’s RIM.
The keyboard also has a prominent numerical phone keypad for one-handed phone dialing, and dedicated ’send’ and ‘end’ phone keys are included as well.
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See:-
SureType – RIM Introduces Breakthrough Keyboard Technology for Smaller Handsets, RIM, September 16, 2004
September 19th, 2004 at 6:09 pm
It is definitely NOT the first QWERTY keyboard for mobiles – look at Treo from Handspring, now PalmOne, even the older models 270/300 (which I have purchased in July 2003) have the full QWERTY keyboard!
see http://web.palmone.com/products/communicators/index.jhtml
September 19th, 2004 at 10:51 pm
Hey there,
You should really learn to read an article before posting… The article is announcing “first wireless devices to feature SureType with large”
It never said the first keyboard on phone…
September 21st, 2004 at 2:51 pm
You are a tool… the keyboard on the Treo and the older models are lisenced from RIM… It’s RIM who developed those handlheld QWERTY keyboards in the first place, now they’ve come out with something new and different.
September 21st, 2004 at 2:52 pm
http://news.com.com/Handspring+to+license+RIM+patents/2100-1040_3-964549.html