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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Thumb Keyboards

Thumb Keyboard « Beansoft


Meet Thumb Keyboard, the revolutionary input method for both Android Tablets and Phones. The innovative split design (first introduced and designed by Beansoft in 2010) quickly set the industry standard for tablet input. [...]


BBC News - KALQ thumb-type keyboard takes on Qwerty



Researchers have created a new keyboard layout which they claim makes "thumb-typing" faster on touchscreen devices such as tablets and large smartphones.
Dr Per Ola Kristensson, from St Andrews University, said traditional Qwerty keyboards had trapped users in "suboptimal text entry interfaces".

The new design has been dubbed KALQ, after the order of keys on one line.