Seasoned BlackBerry users will feel right at home, despite the slightly
different keyboard design.
Not exact matches
Aside from the touchscreen,
different chassis
design, and a slightly lighter weight (213 grams [7.5 ounces] vs 241 grams [8.5 ounces], the Kindle Touch is almost identical to the Kindle
Keyboard.
It featured a half - dozen
different buttons for navigating an e-book, a bizarre Chiclet
keyboard that looked like it was
designed by a surrealist, and a weird kitchen - sink approach to its feature set: for example, you could store and play MP3s on the first - generation Kindle by loading them up through an SD slot.
The HP Pro x2 612 have a
different design though, as a 2 - in - 1 tablet with
keyboard, and also have a certain level of enterprise security.
The Venue 10 7000 features a sleek, futuristic
design with a barrel edge making it easy to hold and carry, or slot into the magnetic, backlit
keyboard that can position the tablet in five
different configurations: tablet, slate, stand, tent or clamshell modes.
Console games are
designed for physical controllers and so touchscreen controls need to be taken into consideration, and desktop games are typically
designed for mouse and
keyboard inputs (many times in addition to phsycial controllers) and so care must be given in terms of the interface as well as the controls as our big clunky fingertips are much
different than the precise nature of a cursor.
I think it would be cool if they
design a game that accepts voice commands for some of the actions you would do with a controller, while still maintaining primary controls with the controller itself... There are some games that just have too many button combinations, alas it would be best for computers say in a RTS title, all the
different freaking hotkeys on the
keyboard could be activated by voice commands instead... now that would be cool.
Another option is an altogether
different keyboard interface purposefully
designed for five - finger typing with one hand.
The basic idea (as spotted by Patently Apple) is to use a touch display that can morph into anything — another concept Apple has toyed with in past patents — switching on - the - fly between, say,
different language layouts, or perhaps an emoji
keyboard, or an ergonomically
designed one with keys split into two
different banks.
Apple today released new international versions of the Smart
Keyboard designed for the iPad Pro, which could previously only be purchased with a United States English layout.As 9to5Mac points out, the Smart
Keyboard can be purchased in British English, Norwegian, Czech, Slovak, Swiss, Dutch, Korean, Spanish, Italian, German, Danish, Swedish, French, Arabic and other language layouts when ordering a Smart
Keyboard alone or as part of an iPad Pro purchase in
different countries.The new language - specific Smart
Keyboards are available starting today through Apple's online store and are priced the same as the U.S. English Smart
Keyboard.
The Venue 10 7000 features a sleek, futuristic
design with a barrel edge making it easy to hold and carry, or slot into the magnetic, backlit
keyboard that can position the tablet in five
different configurations: tablet, slate, stand, tent or clamshell modes.
The
design for switching
keyboards has also changed, bringing on
Keyboard Settings and different keyboard placements as
Keyboard Settings and
different keyboard placements as
keyboard placements as options.