September 18th, 2009 -
No keyboard but touchscreen, that’s how Apple designed iPhone. If you are an iPhone fan, you may never think that one day the way you use iPhone could be like use a blackberry. But this small little thing called iTwinge gives it the availability to put a physical keyboard on iPhone and use it like a blackberry.
Though it’s a good idea and very handy to type with a typical QWERTY for long emails/text/blogs, it has some design defects such like power consumption directly from iPhone, wouldn’t be able to use when flip the iPhone over, too fat to be a attachment, etc.
According to the manufacturer, it can improve the typing speed by 30% -40% and also reduce the typing errors by 70% -80% for a common user.
Anyway, a good try to attach physical keyboard to iPhone to make it easier to type on it for some people. With US$29.99, you can get one from mobilemechatronics.com.
image credit mobilemechatronics.com
September 15th, 2009 -
Computer keyboards are always our topics, but we exited to find so many great keyboard related news over the Internet.
Here goes one for smartphone. Google’s Android, touchscreen, smartphone with traditional QWETRTY keyboard, what could you expect more?
This LG-GW620 smartphone is one of the latest products introduced by LG electronics, powered by Google Android mobile OS. Good to hear some more companies to join to support the android mobile operating system.
(Image Gallery from informationweek.com)
Product Code: LG-GW620
LG-GW620 product features:
- 3″ touchscreen
- A sliding integrated QWERTY keyboard with 5 rows
- And as most of the smart phones, it’s social networking ready
- Could be reloaded with Gmail, Google Maps (possibly, not certain)
- Ability to log into the Android Market for new mobile applications
The Android-powered handset could be available after September in Europe first, price unknown.
It seemed Google Android is attracting more handset manufacturer, it’s expected that over 20 smartphones loaded with Google Android will be seen in the market in year 2009, probably before new year, according to Google.
via: informationweek.com
