One attendee built an electronic keyboard out of bananas.
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Heins says, ""we know there is a lot of physical keyboard lovers out there.
Only a small segment of enterprise users will continue to stay on the traditional keyboard model out of habit.
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Grounded ever so slightly by an electric keyboard poking out here and there, the voices and guitar twist together until their boundaries melt in a blurrily exuberant celebration of everything harmonious and harmonized.
Meanwhile Google Earth, though it works just fine with a regular mouse and keyboard, cries out for experimenters to devise cooler navigation techniques.
There's no getting around it: the Victory is a plump, weighty thing, and it doesn't even have a slide-out keyboard to lean on as an excuse.
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Featuring a smooth, elegantly rounded ergonomic design and a physical keyboard that slides out only when needed, Palm Pre is engineered to feel natural in your hand and comfortably small in your pocket.
The HTC Merge smartphone combines a full QWERTY slide-out keyboard with the power of Android 2.2, the HTC Sense experience, a large 3.8-inch touch-screen display and a 5 megapixel camera to create a complete mobile experience for those looking for a truly complete smartphone.
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As expected, the P910 improves on its predecessor, the P900, by adding a flip-out QWERTY keyboard.
He didn't say when the Q10, with the physical keyboard, will be out or for how much.
On both the 11- and 13-inch models the keyboard deck is fashioned out of smooth aluminum, with a large trackpad and metal keys.
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Palm Inc. created a credible, innovative smartphone with a physical keyboard, but it was a slide-out version, which made the keyboard seem like a burden and an afterthought.
Nickerson says he called Arista and found out his keyboard had been sent in a FedEx (nyse: FDX - news - people ) box that hadn't been opened.
Oh, we almost forgot -- they've boosted out the keyboard in favor of a more useful D-pad and A, B, X, Y button formation -- which is, needless to say, awesome for playing awesome games.
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The Mogul doesn't look quite as futuristic or elegant as the iPhone, but it has some features Apple's phone lacks, like a removable battery, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard for thumbing messages, access to a "third-generation" (3G) Internet connection for fast mobile Web access and downloadable software applications that let you turn your smart phone into a mini computer.
Snapkeys, an Israeli-based startup, takes things further by wiping out the traditional keyboard altogether.
The consumer division of Compaq, the world's leading computer maker, is also working on a desktop machine that folds up "like a book, " keyboard and all, when out of use, says Franklin Sze, senior product marketing manager for Compaq's greater China division.
Yamaha PSR3000Yamaha's latest "home keyboard" models (if you were going to diss on them you'd definitely be calling them organs rather than synthesizers) come with the ability to hook up to a DSL modem and download new songs to pick out on said keyboard, karaoke tunes with lyrics to sing along to, or just muzak.
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When I finally looked up from my keyboard, it was getting nasty out.
It also features an exceptionally thin smartphone design with a slide out, full QWERTY keyboard and 4-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen display.
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Tim also gets out from behind his keyboard by regularly organizing meet-ups where he travels to towns across the country to meet and directly connect with avid Pandora fans.
Just one more day figuring out a problem at the keyboard or under the ventilating hood, making another set of sales calls, teaching another roomful of people about the latest software upgrades.
The plastics and film have to progress so that I can roll out a screen or a keyboard or at least open it up multiple times so that it increases its size.
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The next phone to be rolled out is the Q10, a keyboard-equipped phone that RIM says is on track for an April launch in some markets and is winding its way through the carrier testing process in 20 countries.
That aside, we loved the experience of sliding the keyboard open and closed, as it turned out to be incredibly solid: it wasn't so loose that it felt like it was going to slide off and hit a poor defenseless bystander, but it wasn't so tight that it required the jaws of life to open it.
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The Explorer's battery-operated keyboard is located on a tray table that folds out of the recliner's left arm.
But, guys, could you take a page from Microsoft and figure out some kind of integral snap on keyboard that you ship to the schools?
Science fiction has this great sense of an organ filling a cathedral: you've got three keyboards, not just one, you've got stops you can pull out, there's an extra keyboard under your feet, you can start playing that as well!
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This is an app that lets you use a PC to configure your phone more quickly, since you can type out your credentials on a full-sized keyboard.
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Oh, it sounds like GearLog was there to check it out: no surprise, they mentioned the keyboard is "infinitesimal... impossible to type on this thing with two thumbs".
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