Right now, the platform only supports keyboard and mouse or gamepad controls, but developers have been playing with just about everything they can think of.
Here's a question we've been asking ourselves for a while: what if the dock for a hybrid tablet could offer not only a keyboard and battery, but also increased performance?
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The core members of the Fall quit, for good, and Smith was left to do a gig in England a few weeks later with only the keyboard player his then girlfriend, Julia Nagle and the drummer Kate Themen, a new addition, who played a grand total of three shows with the Fall (possibly a record).
The other is that the method of input is different, because there is either only a tiny keyboard or none at all.
Sprint plans to only sell the keyboard-equipped Q10 at this time.
The Q10 will have a physical keyboard, while the Z10 has only a touch-screen keyboard.
That has opened the floodgates for startups like SwiftKey, which builds a predictive Android keyboard that tries to anticipate what a user is trying to type, and Snapkeys, a futuristic-style keyboard that consists of only four keys, to remake the keyboard on Android smartphones.
Weibo shows up in the Settings app only if a Chinese keyboard is enabled.
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Unlike Lenovo's IdeaPad U110, the gloss factor wasn't an issue, as the matte keyboard and only slightly shiny display kept glare to a minimum.
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When you plug in the handset, the display turns into an all-in-one PC, with Ice Cream Sandwich as your desktop OS. Since the 1920 x 1200 screen isn't touch-enabled, you'll have to get used to interacting with Android using only a mouse and keyboard.
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Sprint is only planning to carry the keyboard-equipped Q10 at this time, with no immediate plans to carry the touch-screen Z10 device.
Customers can look up words, highlight passages, adjust the font size and style or search by typing on the responsive on-screen keyboard that appears only when a customer needs it.
The only thing is that the keyboard actually looks more or less impossible to use (how exactly would you hold the phone when you're typing?), and it almost seems like someone at Sony Ericsson just decreed that one be tossed in there without really thinking about its usability.
Sprint, for example, will only be launching the Q10 (which comes with the traditional, physical QWERTY keyboard), while T- Mobile will only commercialize the touch screen-only Z10.
Because arguably the only things more viral than cute keyboard-playing cats are cute wise-cracking babies, the famous E-Trade Baby from the Super Bowl ads is now an app.
The only downside is navigating the onscreen keyboard via remote, although you can always sub in your mobile device thanks to those recently upgraded remote apps for iOS and Android.
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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.
In designing the Jukebox, Creative's engineers faced an interesting challenge: how to manage 2, 000-plus songs without keyboard or mouse, with only a small monochrome screen for visual cues?
Ever since, Eigsti has been impressing audiences and critics alike with the technical proficiency of the prodigy he is, and an intuitive understanding of the keyboard and jazz that is usually only found in much older players.
With a wireless keyboard and mouse, the design requires only a single power cable, eliminating clutter and tangled cords.
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For those in the audience enamored with the iPhone -- especially those willing to look past the lack of 3G and requisite 2-year service agreement -- there's really only one x-factor left: the touchscreen keyboard.
For starters, the Android version offers two keyboard options -- a simple QWERTY-only and one with a space bar -- that can be toggled on or off with a two finger swipe down.
For users dead set on expanding that capacity, an optional keyboard dock will be made available that not only augments the S2110's storage via full SD slot, but also extends battery life by an extra 10 hours.
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Anti-spying pro-tip: The accelerometer trick only works if the phone is in close quarters with your keyboard.
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The Model 33 Teletype keyboard connected to the computer Mr Tomlinson was using only had about 12 punctuation characters.
Researchers said the key to optimising a keyboard for two thumbs was to minimise long typing sequences that only involved a single thumb.
Only a small segment of enterprise users will continue to stay on the traditional keyboard model out of habit.
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"Because the iPad mini enjoys most of the same features as a full-sized iPad, it only makes sense to offer a scaled down version of our award-winning keyboard folio for the iPad mini, " said Jamie Elgie, senior director of product management at Belkin.
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