Comments on: Mobile On-Screen Keyboards

By: fred perry clothing

fred perry clothing — Sat, 07 May 2011 00:53:00 +0000

Also of note is that a vast array of special characters are immediately
available via a “long-touch” on any of the keys while still retaining
alternate keyboard screens for direct access to those special characters
without the need for a long-touch.

By: 9 Things I didn’t know about the iPad « Greg's Head

9 Things I didn’t know about the iPad « Greg's Head — Sat, 15 May 2010 05:13:02 +0000

[...] as the iPhone keyboard design It’s not quite a MacBook keyboard layout and it’s not an iPhone keyboard layout either. Commit actions like, done, go, search aren’t colored like on the iPhone. The dashes, [...]

By: Girish

Girish — Sat, 08 May 2010 06:43:05 +0000

Nice round up of mobile keypads, you know those qwerty keyboard designs work great until you hit internationalization, then everything goes for a toss. I was trying to fit an asian language keyb onto a phone, and its a huge UI challenge. With so many variations in phonetics and semantics, we need some serious standards/research on this.

I find the horizontal layout a little more usable, and iphone keyb works best so far.

By: Dylan Bennett

Dylan Bennett — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:46:14 +0000

It’s worth noting HTC’s SenseUI keyboard. HTC often makes significant and noteworthy UI changes to stock mobile operating systems, and their Android keyboard is one such noteworthy change.

You’ll notice it has that “funnel” effect you mentioned with the iPhone keyboard, as well as the uppercase letters, and the “Enter” is contextual (changing to a green “GO” button when in a browser, for example).

Also of note is that a vast array of special characters are immediately available via a “long-touch” on any of the keys while still retaining alternate keyboard screens for direct access to those special characters without the need for a long-touch.

Here’s a screenshot:

http://android.marvinlee.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/marvin_hero10.png