With the advent of touch-sensitive smartphones, the arrival of phones with physical keyboards is gradually moving to a phase of extinction. But besides, there is quite a big user segment who would ...

As cell phones and other portable handheld devices continue to add features, design trade-offs are constantly evolving. Popular features such as text messaging and web browsing demand more data entry, ...

The Nuu MiniKey case that adds a physical sliding QWERTY Bluetooth keypad – and some bulk – to an iPhone 4 that first reared its head in prototype form at IFA last year is now available in the U.S.

Not at all sure about the specs on this device, but from its appearance, it’s a Bluetooth keyboard sporting the smallQWERTY layout from Mobience. Please note, “smallQWERTY” does not mean a small ...

As much as some people love the iPhone, serious textaholics think that not having a mechanical keyboard is social suicide -- so LG has come up with the KS360, a texter's idea of heaven. When it's ...

A recent usability study found that average cell phone users are far more efficient using physical QWERTY keypads to type messages than they are when using the virtual keypad included with Apple ...

Meet the Motorola Fire, a burningly budget Android 2.3 mobile that rocks a full Qwerty keypad and a 2.8-inch touchscreen to boot. Luke Westaway is a senior editor at CNET and writer/ presenter of ...

- $149 Rise is Public Mobile's first Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" Smartphone and First Android with a Full QWERTY Keypad - TORONTO & SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Public Mobile and Kyocera ...

Russell Beattie has a mock-up of what he’s looking for in a cellphone keypad: the letters organized in the same order as a QWERTY keyboard, not alphabetically like they are now. Read Share this story ...

Research in Motion, the manufacturer of Blackberry, unveiled the phone today in at its WES2010 conference in Orlando, Florida, saying the device was its smallest ever handset. The Pearl 3G weighs 3.3 ...

As touch-sensitive smartphones become more popular, phones with physical keyboards are slowly fading away. However, there is still a significant group of users who prefer smartphones with QWERTY ...

This tutorial describes how low cost, low power CPLDs can be used to expand a typical handset DTMF keypad into a QWERTY keypad. As cell phones and other portable handheld devices continue to add ...