Comments on: Nokia N920 Concept – How Nokia should approach a QWERTY keyboard?

By: The New Nokia C6 – the best keyboard from a Nokia touch/QWERTY hybrid? | My Nokia Blog

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:23:59 +0000

[...] there should be investment in making a really good one (as opposed to just ticking a box). Ideally I’d have something like the N920 concept keyboard – or this N900/n92o keyboard mashup but that’s just me. Not shown as it would take too [...]

By: Kangal

Kangal — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:34:49 +0000

I had 1 typo it was:

Xperia X2: I meant to say its good sized BUT has no dedicated number keys!!
Which is a big disappointment in my honest opinion (imho)!

By: Kangal

Kangal — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:30:56 +0000

I like this post. I’ve been thinking of this matter as well. But I have to slightly disagree on your keyboard. For instance no Ctrl and Tracball is good but some find it useless. Instead of being an idiot like 80% of bloggers and say your design is crap, I actually took your design and made my own version of it. IMHO I’ve improved it, but others may disagree saying I’ve made it more complex than it needs to be.

Here’s what I based my keyboard’s concept on:
The HTC Touch Pro 2 does have a good featured keyboard BUT it has 5 rows, which makes the keys squished vertically and more difficult for the user to know which button their (giant) thumb rests on (ie cannot see surrounding keys easy due to the squished keys).

On the opposite, the Xperia X2 has a good ergonomics keyboard. It has 4 rows and this helps keep keys at a good size. You can push away easily and you know where your thumb rests.

So I combined these two layouts with the standard keyboard to acheive this:
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/8254/3design.png

(keyboard on a phone which is 130x76mm, the screen is 5.83″ (128x72mm) and the underslide area is 130x48mm)
+ The keyboard is fairly-sized (X2) so the same layout can be rescaled to fit a smaller area

Please give feedback with explanations why you like/dislike

By: csrao

csrao — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:41:59 +0000

it is a new phone, and it is a very good, so i like it.

By: csrao

csrao — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:39:26 +0000

it is a new phone. so more details tell me.

By: If N900 had a 4-row keyboard and/or a tilted screen? | My Nokia Blog

If N900 had a 4-row keyboard and/or a tilted screen? | My Nokia Blog — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:01:20 +0000

[...] revealed the first image to be simply a cheap-ass MS paint job as a concept of a proper 4-row QWERTY keyboard on a Nokia [...]

By: ekrem ramadani

ekrem ramadani — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:56:11 +0000

jam i interesuar ta di si mund te kam ne posedim nje ksi lloj telefoni n920 na kosov a mund te gjaj edhe ne qfar shume
me rrespekt

By: briggs

briggs — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:17:07 +0000

Lets make it simple, right now the only keyboard worth talking about is the Touch Pro 2 keyboard, I hate the phone but the keyboard was a dream, it is true I cambe back to my N97 but the keyboard leaves lots to be desired.

By: Freeky Zee

Freeky Zee — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:19:30 +0000

I have just seen the experia x2 keyboard and I LOVE IT.

By: smk

smk — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:29:25 +0000

hello nokia …..wake up all mobile r making fast n fast mobile and camra……why r u week back to all….plz,make n920 fast tablet mobile and fix maximum 8magapixal…….be sad nokia.