Not exact matches
We now live in a smartphone world where far more people have experienced a touchscreen smartphone than a phone with
physical buttons and most people don't know a
keyboard can work this way - whenever I give a demo of the KEYone to someone who is unfamiliar,
swiping on the
keyboard blows them away.
How that will work is obviously unclear as of this moment — RIM's current method of
swiping up from a key to select the next word obviously won't work
on a
physical keyboard.
Obviously, there is no
physical keyboard, which Amazon went away from with the last generation Kindle Touch, but everything is accomplished through the touchscreen — including typing
on a touchscreen
keyboard and tapping or
swiping on the screen to turn pages when reading.
No, there is no dedicated BBM BlackBerry button or a
physical trackpad, but the whole
keyboard can act as a trackpad — you can scroll up and down or
swipe left or right by just moving your fingers
on the
physical keyboard, which might seem initially unusual but is rather cool, once you get the hang of it.
BlackBerry has its own set of updates as well, among them the ability to
swipe on the
physical QWERTY
keyboard in order to type, just like it already happens with the virtual
keyboard of the flagship.