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By Eddie Lopez. Friday, 25. May 2007, 01:43:39

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We talk a lot about mobile phones around here.... a LOT. Well, here's more fuel for the fire: a new method that puts the ABCD layout surrounding the traditional phone key buttons. Faster than the multi-tap, but qwerty it's not. Still not a bad compromise I suppose. What do you think? Looks a little "loud" to me from a design perspective. But I understand the diffculty of laying a qwerty orientation into that design.

I'll pit this in the "moderate" middle of the road design with the Pearl/Sure-Type devices.

Another hat tip to dantesoft.

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Stu_Pedasso 25. May 2007, 13:08

Looks very cumbersome or overloaded to me. And if those keys are slightly raised from the number keys, those keys will scratch up the screen when it's closed really quickly. That's my experience with flip phones. It would be interesting to actually try though.

Anonymous 25. May 2007, 18:05

Abo writes:

This keypad is a lot faster because it is based on QWERTY:

www.chicagologic.com


Anonymous 4. June 2007, 20:08

Anonymous writes:

I think the keyboard looks very fun and certainly original, i am not a fast typer on my mobile and think that it wqould help alot

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