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Counterclockwise: mad scientist ideas for phone keyboards Comments

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  • The Publisher
  • q5G
  • 15 Jul 2018

Does anyone still use Swype or similar keyboards?!? Why would anyone peck around their keyboard when they can slide? It's proven to be much faster and more efficient. Google keyboard with continuous input.

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  • mTV
  • 15 Jul 2018

Probably missed Nokia 7280 / 7380... unique design for keypad.

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  • Anonymous
  • SvB
  • 15 Jul 2018

Oh, I remember the rokr e8, amazing phone, nice sound quality but a bit slow

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  • Kangal
  • uCX
  • 15 Jul 2018

Do you guys remember the Nokia N950?
Pepperidge farm remembers.

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  • w7n
  • 15 Jul 2018

Brandstifter, 15 Jul 2018I don't get the final question of the article. Not using a swype-enabled keyboard in 2018 wou... moreI use a combination of both, sometimes i type with my right hand and swype across letters with my left hand at the same time, it's much faster.

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  • w7n
  • 15 Jul 2018

n3t3p, 15 Jul 2018Those were the days of innovation (wrt design) Unlike today where every phone is a brick with... morePretty sure if they make those designs now, no one will buy them. Now it's all about efficiency and experience. Back then the OS can only pretty much do simple things and no one care that much about the camera cos quality wasn't good enough so people still have a P&S camera around. They can design the phone any way they want and user experience of the phone will be pretty much the same.

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  • Marc Aurel
  • mhZ
  • 15 Jul 2018

Plenty of people still use Swype-style keyboard input. Gboard has that option as have some other popular Android keyboards. Swyping is used by a minority of users for sure, but there is enough of them to keep the it alive for years to come.

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  • n3t3p
  • GQP
  • 15 Jul 2018

Those were the days of innovation (wrt design)
Unlike today where every phone is a brick with altered edges and corners.
Diffferent appeal made every device unique!
Missing those odd yet cool designs... by Nokia, Sony!!!

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  • nE$
  • 15 Jul 2018

I had Nokia 7600 was a good phone and different, I have always like to be different to the norm and this was in the days when the companies used to experiment with bizarre designs, Nokia and Siemens where the ones and Motorola to a degree my last different looking phone was that of Moto the Flipout.

Unfortunately today is boring there is no one willing to stand outside the box and design something different, I suppose you could say BB did with the passport.

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  • mgK
  • 15 Jul 2018

I never really stayed with the swype thing, I think it is useless and a gimmick

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  • Luxor
  • RIE
  • 15 Jul 2018

Virtual keyboard all the way. Easier and faster too. Even got the emojis. QWERTY physical keyboard in phones becoming irrelevant.

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  • janis
  • 3b1
  • 15 Jul 2018

Applehead, 15 Jul 2018Nokia E55 is beautiful plastic, metal painted phones who scratches fast maybe some rare metals in there.
Now, these phone parts laying around everywhere.

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  • Anonymous
  • p8i
  • 15 Jul 2018

Siemens SX1 was really futuristic looking when looking in those IT magazines

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  • Lee
  • tu6
  • 15 Jul 2018

Where r u(new Nokia yellow banana 4g)?Ha ha...

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  • Brandstifter
  • wuq
  • 15 Jul 2018

I don't get the final question of the article.
Not using a swype-enabled keyboard in 2018 would be pretty weird.

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  • tDR
  • 15 Jul 2018

Tried the 8pen-like just now. Quite good for stressing your mind to learn a keyboard layout. And, HOW to type them instead of pressing a single ducking button.

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  • Dkw
  • 15 Jul 2018

Nokia E55 is beautiful

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  • ZloiYuri
  • Tmf
  • 15 Jul 2018

I had M600 and that was best keyboard I ever used. Fastest way to type. Finger slightly slided left and right and keys were big enough for comfort typing.

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