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SwiftKey X Adds Yet Another Virtual Keyboard Option for Android

Ina Fried in Mobile on July 14, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

While iPhone and Windows Phone users are stuck with the software keyboard that comes with their phones, Android users have a growing array of options.

Report: Nonexistent “Facebook Phone” to Be Manufactured by INQ Mobile

John Paczkowski in News on September 23, 2010 at 6:45 am PT

So the Facebook phone that the social networking service claims doesn’t exist? It’s being manufactured by INQ Mobile and it will likely be available through AT&T next year in two different models–one with a touchscreen and another with a Qwerty-style keyboard. This according to not one but three people familiar with the matter, who tell Bloomberg the devices will run Android and may–or may not–carry the Facebook brand.

New TiVo Remote Tackles Clunky Text-Entry

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on August 24, 2010 at 3:49 pm PT

TiVo is offering a new remote with a QWERTY keyboard as a solution to its arcane text-entry system. We take it for a test drive.

AT&T Gets Its Android On

John Paczkowski in News on February 18, 2010 at 7:36 am PT

AT&T has finally added an Android smartphone to its lineup–the Motorola Backflip. The first of five Android smartphones AT&T has promised to deliver in 2010, the Backflip will arrive at market in March at a price of $99–after a $100 mail-in rebate and a commitment to two-years of AT&T data and voice service.

The Android Invasion Continues: Motorola Debuts the Backflip

John Paczkowski in Social on January 7, 2010 at 5:30 am PT

Motorola has added another superphone to its Android portfolio, the Backflip. Unveiled at a press event at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the device is similar to Verizon’s Droid in that it features both a touchscreen and keypad, but with one interesting twist: A reverse “qwerty” flip keypad that folds out from behind the display.

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Trying New Ways of Typing

Andy Jordan, Editor and Producer, Tech Diary, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 26, 2009 at 7:53 am PT

The way we type is subject to the changing winds of technology, as well as safety concerns over issues like texting while driving. One of the big debates is about keyboard layouts, which includes the traditional Qwerty design and the user-friendly but obscure Dvorak.

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Smart Phone Keyboards Seem Dumb to People of Their Type

Joseph De Avila, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 30, 2009 at 1:00 am PT

When the iPhone first came out, Richard Kasperowski wanted one. But there was a problem. The keypad on the phone’s touch screen uses the traditional keyboard configuration, called “qwerty.”

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Smart-Phone Keyboards Seem Dumb to People of Their Type

Joseph De Avila, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 28, 2009 at 3:00 pm PT

When the iPhone first came out, Richard Kasperowski wanted one. But there was a problem. The keypad on the phone’s touch screen uses the traditional keyboard configuration, called “qwerty.” “I thought it would hurt my brain using a qwerty,” says the 39-year-old technology director in Cambridge, Mass. He wanted something different. He wanted a Dvorak.

The Motorola CLIQ: WINR or LOZR?

John Paczkowski in News on September 10, 2009 at 12:30 pm PT

Motorola has finally announced its bet-the-company Android handset. At GigaOM’s Mobilize 09 event in San Francisco this morning, Sanjay Jha, Motorola’s co-CEO and CEO of the company’s handset division, uncrated the CLIQ, a device it describes unremarkably as the “first phone with social skills.”

New Perspective On BlackBerrys And iPhones

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on August 25, 2009 at 3:02 pm PT

Seeking the best, and worst, of both worlds, BlackBerry and iPhone users switch products. The Mossberg Solution takes a look at what they like and don’t like about their new toys.