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Home My Photo Blog (Moblog) Observations Java Hot Products Books/Knowledge Devices Operators Mobile Messaging My Courses My Profile My ideas/thoughts Techno Vision Blogroll Me! Join Paul's mail list	Monday, August 18, 2003   :: Q12 - Another exciting keypad design :: It seems my previous comment to open up a channel just to discuss keypads was justified. No sooner had I said it than these guys at Softava emailed me about this exciting new design called Q12 (right). It uses the same principle I have already reported here that Unitap and Fastap use, namely deliberately positioning keys (“hills”) close enough together that pressing what appears to be the gaps (“valleys”) between them causes several keys to be pressed at once. This combination is used to generate the desired character, so in effect each valley is like a virtual key. Fastap and Unitap both use enough keys to represent directly the letters and virtually the digits. However, the Q12 takes this to another level and uses cleverly shaped keys to represent the digits directly and the letters virtually via all the various valleys sculptured in the keys (see the schematics on their website). It sure seems clever and I would love to try it out for real.     10:46:59 PM    comment []   © Copyright 2003 Paul Golding. Last update: 8/18/2003; 10:49:57 PM.	August 2003 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat           1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31             Jul   Sep Sign up to my email list - Send me email Available for hire as consultant via Magic E Company who can also develop software for you. Consult my booklist on Amazon Blogroll: