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HTC says bye bye to QWERTY keypads on phones

article published on 21 April, 2012

HTC has announced this week that it has no more plans to create phones with QWERTY keypads. While the company has been focusing on touchscreen designs for years now, there were the occasional devices with full keyboards for those who are fans of hitting actual buttons rather than simulated versions. The company's last QWERTY-sporting design was the "Facebook phone," the ChaCha, which ... [ read the full article ]

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Jeffrey_P
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_ 		21. April 2012 @ 19:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I don't know why more consumer products manufacturers haven't dumped the QWERTY keyboard.

QWERTY was developed for typewriters because ABC... caused the hammers to stick together. Abc and so on are the most common keys used.

Jeff
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A5J4DX
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_ 		21. April 2012 @ 21:52 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
finally moving on
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_ 		23. April 2012 @ 08:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
working with computers for my job having to look for an alpha keyboard rather than a qwerty one means i never use an alpha. my fingers know where the keys are. prefer qwerty after 30 years using them
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Jeffrey_P
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_ 		23. April 2012 @ 10:14 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Back in the late '70's and early '80's I was supervisor of Tab products company data entry division. They missed the boat when the IBM i8088 PC was released trying to keep an 80 column 200 pound keypunch and key to disk which sported an 8" floppy disk alive. The 8" floppy was a Seagate which weighed a hefty 20 or so pounds.

Shipped machines thru out the US and EU. QWERTY and EBCDIC keyboards were the norm. However even way back when I questioned the usefulness of such dated keyboard standards.

Jeff
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ddp
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_ 		23. April 2012 @ 11:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
because qwerty is still taught in schools which is why it is still being used.
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andypryce
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_ 		7. May 2012 @ 20:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Qwerty keyboards were developed with letters that commonly go together close to each other. Once you learn where the keys are it is much faster typing than with an abc keyboard.
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ddp
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_ 		7. May 2012 @ 23:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
wrong, qwerty keyboards were designed to slow a a typist down on the old manual typewriters as a person can type faster then the mechanical linkages can & the keys get jammed up. ever hear of a dorvak keyboard as laid out differently from a qwerty keyboard?
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BobShaft
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_ 		14. May 2012 @ 09:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I prefer phones with the physical keyboard. Makes it easier to type without looking directly at the phone constantly.

According to Wikipedia "A popular myth is that QWERTY was designed to "slow down" typists though this is incorrect ? it was designed to prevent jams while typing at speed, allowing typists to type faster"

I think the idea is that they placed the most used keys away from each other to keep them from jamming together when typing fast.
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