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Re: New Keyboard


Anyone remember the Microwriter?! The system was available on a small 
PDA type device called the AgendA, came out about 15 years ago. Since 
then there have been several similar systems.

Luis.



>Time to resurect Chuck's 5 key design?
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>Simon
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>NEW YORK -- Usability guru Jakob Nielsen writes, "[I]t's a
>doomed strategy to build mobile Internet devices as mutated
>telephones." Anybody who's tried to write email on a WAP
>phone no doubt agrees.
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>You can't fit a full keyboard into a cell phone. Instead we
>have the tedious "multi-tap" system where you have to press
>the "4" key three times to get the letter "I." Some phones
>also have Tegic's T9 (Tegic was bought by America Online)
>that lets you choose from a few predicted words after you've
>tapped in a few keys. But it doesn't work on slang, email
>addresses, or URLs.
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