Thumb Keyboard

Thumb Keyboard

A thumb keyboard, or a thumbboard, is a type of keyboard commonly found on PDAs, mobile phones, and PDA phones which has a familiar layout to an ordinary keyboard, where the input possibilities are determined by a given manufacturer. The inputting surface is usually relatively small, and is intended to be typed on using the available thumbs for inputting, while holding the device.

Devices with Thumb Keyboards

*BlackBerry
*Nokia 6810, Nokia 6800, Nokia 6820, Nokia 6822, Nokia E61, Nokia E70
*Nokia 9300
*Some Sony CLIE PDAs
*Some Hewlett Packard PDAs (HP iPaq 4350/4355)
*Motorola MPx220
*Palm Treo smartphones, with the exception of the Treo 180g
*Palm Tungsten C
*Samsung Blackjack (SGH-i607)
*Motorola Q

ee also

*Keypad

External links

* [http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Thad.Starner/p/030_10_MTE/mini-qwerty-chi05.pdf "An Empirical Study of Typing Rates on mini-QWERTY Keyboards"] by Edward Clarkson, James Clawson, Kent Lyons, and Thad Starner, 2005.


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