Tag: Qwerty
Another Xpress Music phone from Nokia – the 5730, with QWERTY keyboard!
Although I’m violently opposed to Comes with Music’s DRM, sometimes nasty things come in nice packages. This is the Nokia 5730 Xpress Music, straight outta Russia. It’s packing an awesome dot-matrix-effect QWERTY keyboard, 2″ screen, 1,000mAh battery, GPS, 128MB of RAM and USB/Bluetooth connectivity.
Interestingly it doesn’t have 3G – just EDGE – so downloading music on the device won’t be fun. It’ll be showing up in European markets this April for €220 (£204). I’m afraid we’ve not got anything more specific on the release date. If you can uninstall the “Comes with Music” software, and don’t need 3G, then this isn’t too bad a phone.
(via Engadget)
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Humans and Klingons brought together via the medium of the Cherry Klingon Language Wired Keyboard
Turns out we have a lot more in common with our Klingon friends than we first thought.
Klingons like a nice big Enter key on the right to make typing easier, just like us. They also enjoy a big Space bar, plus it looks like they have evolved a similar aesthetic of placing the ‘Esc’ key at the top-left and sticking a range of Function keys that go from about F1 to F12 along the top for easy access to features.
Klingons also like to use a separate numeric keypad…
O2 announces UK release for BlackBerry Curve 8900
O2 has announced that the curiously non-3G BlackBerry Curve 8900 (formerly known as the ‘Javelin’) will be released on January 5th 2009. It’s going to be available for pre-registration from tomorrow (Dec 10th), and for pre-order from Dec 22nd on the O2 website.
Maybe I’m missing something here, but is this phone eagerly awaited? I haven’t heard anyone getting excited about the release, but with all this pre-reg and pre-order shenanigans, it seems like people are dying to get their hands on the device.
The μTRON Keyboard – a terrifying new form of Japanese brain torture
As if typing isn’t a difficult and tiresome enough chore that only exists because voice and brain recognition technology is STILL rubbish, here’s something to make it harder. The μTRON Keyboard. A keyboard that’s been chopped up and rearranged. An invention that could halve office productivity over night.
The μTRON Keyboard comes in two pieces, with the space bar relegated…
SHINY VIDEO REVIEW: BlackBerry Flip 8220
Here’s Susi’s take on the BlackBerry Flip. On the one hand, it has Wi-Fi and 3.5mm headphone jack. On the other, however, it has just a 2 megapixel camera. Oh, and it’s a flip phone. Which was cool sometime around 1998. For more details, check out Susi’s video above.
BlackBerry Flip
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Nokia unveils E63 "messaging device"
Here’s the E63 – another QWERTY candybar from Nokia to join the E71. It’s designed as a slightly more mass-market version of the E71, but still keeps the business features that made that handset so popular. Nokia’s aim with this is to appeal to consumers who want to do work on their phone, but also access their personal stuff too.
The E63 keeps the Wi-Fi, exchange mail, and single-key access to contacts, your calendar and email, but it also adds an ability to switch modes from a po-faced ‘professional’ view, with your work email, appointments, and intranet data, to a ‘personal’ view that has pictures of your cats, personal email, and shortcuts to favourite blogs…
HTC S740 has full QWERTY keyboard… the fat-fingered need not apply
HTC has today revealed a pretty new addition to its line-up in the form of the S740 – it’s a slider… but not as we know it.
LG intros KS360 touchscreen slider phone with QWERTY keyboard
LG has introduced its KS360 slider phone, featuring a full 2.4-inch colour touchscreen and a sliding panel that reveals the full QWERTY keyboard.
It’s aimed at those wanting to send texts, emails, and instant messages, with the keyboard allowing for easier character entry, while the touchscreen still allows for dialling phone numbers…
The Ultimate Chat Machine concept mobile – a touchscreen/qwerty combo
Forget the iPhone, forget the Nokia Tube, this is the baby you’re after. Why settle for just a touchscreen or qwerty keypad when you can have both?
Jin Woo Han’s concept design for PPWK group and red-lab not only gives you the full media browsing speeds combined with lightening text fury but also looks absolutely exquisite too.
There are a few different models for you to view post-jump but all are based around a heart of speed, style and functionality. They’re even rubber coated so you’re less likely to drop them and a little more protected if you do. As Jin himself describes, they’re the Ultimate Chat Machines…
LG Scoop announced at CTIA Wireless – wonderful design but where's the spec?
Am I supposed to be impressed just because this phone has a qwerty keyboard, because I’m not. I’ve got an old IBM 486 lying around somewhere that’s got one of those but that doesn’t make me want to carry it around in my pocket.
The mechanics of the LG Scoop, just announced at CTIA Wireless…
