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Apple's design methodology was used by ex-Apple employee David Levy when designing the new mobile keypad that gives every letter and number its own key in an area no larger than one-third of a business card.
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I never got into that whole "texting" thing, but everytime I've used it I thought entering text was a pain in the ***. Nice to see someone rethought the whole thing.
It needs number keys as well as letters - pressing 4 keys at once is not very easy to do to dial a number! If they made those numbers actual buttons it'd be great (recess them a bit so they're not pressed by accident)
Amorya
*confused*
Did you see the picture, there's numbers in between the letter keys....
duh!
I think the idea is that when you press a number key, it'll take the four surrounding buttons with it, sorta like tape recorders that also press play when you press "record". So on the human side, you're pressing "6", but on the computer side, it sees "g, h, k, l", which it interprets as a 6. At least, that's how I understand it.
There are no number 'buttons', just recessed areas that show what number you will get when you press in that area. Our fingers are not stylii, they're big, so pressing over a number area will press the four letter keys around it, which gives you a number. There is no number button, so it's not like pressing record which has a physical linkage that brings the play button down with it.
In short, it's not a conscious decision you make to press four letter keys, it just happens when you press on the number.
Ah, finally somebody say's it right! Thanks LafinJack!!
Its a perfect design, I love it!
The idea is good, of course, but it looks really ugly. They need help with the design to make it look good. Perhaps it feels really good though. i don't like the alphabetical order of the buttons... but I'll get used to that in a couple of weeks I guess.
No, not the keyboard (which is très cool), but rather this site. I kinda miss the jelly buttons, keeping in concert with Apple.com. :D
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great idea
about time somebody took a fresh look at the old keypad...this looks like a great idea