A miniature keyboard designed to be used with the thumbs. See thumb culture and mylo.
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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 E71.
- 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
See also
External links
- "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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