Schiller taps a cell and brings up a compact, onscreen data entry keyboard.
Users can intuitively operate the calculator using the stylus on the touch-panel LCD, and input data using the software keyboard.
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Also, there was great fanfare at that July analyst meeting about the Motorola Q phone that is supposed to compete with the BlackBerry and includes voice, audio, video, camera and data with a QWERTY keyboard.
This enabled Troy to track the performance of the trainees before putting them behind a keyboard for "live" data input, she said.
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Demand for palmtop computers, organisers and smart telephones is currently held back by the need to enter data using awkward symbols and a clumsy stylus or cramped keyboard.
The original T-Mobile Sidekick was my top pick last fall, thanks to its usable interfaces, surprisingly workable keyboard and all-you-can-eat data plan.
Richard Chapman, director of product management operations at SunGard, said the combination of touch and keyboard, and the ability to expand and shrink data on the screen with a swipe of a finger, significantly improves back office speed.
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And a new class of phones--full qwerty keyboard messaging handsets--are marrying "not free" features with data plans.
All are now said to start testing in the coming months, and we're just learning that the car will feature GLONASS navigation, is said to include a "telephone with a keyboard" and will have some sort of infotainment system controlled by a "data panel, " which we're hoping is a little better integrated into the dash than the slab dominating the Model S center console.
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According to 2008 year-end data, Smartphones were a clear consumer must-have, offering such advanced capabilities as a keyboard, Web browser and some PC-like functionality.
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