Thumb keyboard
A thumb keyboard, or a thumb board, is a type of keyboard commonly found on PDAs, mobile phones, and PDA phones which has a familiar layout to an ordinary keyboard, such as QWERTY.[1] The inputting surface is usually relatively small and is intended for typing using the available thumbs, while holding the device.[2]
Devices with thumb keyboards
- BlackBerry
- Some Nokia phones including Nokia 6800 series
- HTC TyTN, HTC TyTN II, HTC Touch Pro, HTC Touch Pro2
- Some Sony CLIE PDAs
- Some Hewlett Packard PDAs (HP iPaq 4350/4355/63XX series)
- Microsoft Xbox 360 Controller "Chatpad"
- Motorola MPx220
- Palm Treo smartphones, with the exception of the Treo 180g
- Palm Tungsten C
- Samsung products including Samsung Blackjack (SGH-i607)
- Motorola Q
- Wibrain: B1, B1L, B1H, I1
References
- ^ Siewiorek, Dan; Smailagic, Asim; Starner, Thad (2022-06-01). Application Design for Wearable Computing. Springer Nature. ISBN 978-3-031-02476-4.
- ^ Sears, Andrew; Jacko, Julie A. (2009-03-02). Human-Computer Interaction Fundamentals. CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-8882-3.