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Come to think wouldn't the keyboard that each keys give you 3 or 4 chars with one single action (push) speed up writing process tremendously?? T9 doesnt even c
by joering2 11y ago
Come to think wouldn't the keyboard that each keys give you 3 or 4 chars with one single action (push) speed up writing process tremendously??
T9 doesnt even come close!!!
- emeraldd 11y agoThis used to be a thing.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrogPad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrogPad I'm not sure they ever made it too far but I always wanted to get one.
- skykooler 11y agoI remember seeing those in Popular Science and being vaguely interested.
- cstross 11y agoI bought one, so I can attest that the hardware was real (bluetooth, left-handed model). Alas, it's lost somewhere in a pile of boxes left still-not-unpacked from my last move, and they went bust some years ago -- rumours of a new low-profile version similar to the Apple chiclet keyboard have failed to materialize as hardware so far. The thing worked, and worked surprisingly well for single-hand typing (if, for example, you had an injury to the other paw). Trouble is, it cost more than a regular QWERTY keyboard, was slower (all those chording shift-states), and wasn't ambidextrous (left-handed and right-handed models had differing layouts, IIRC).
- wodenokoto 11y agoIn case you don't know this is actually how smartphone keyboards work in Japan.