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QWERTY

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QWERTY[not an acronym] Standard typewriter/keyboard layout, top row left, first 6 letters
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Dr Per Ola Kristensson, from St Andrews University, said traditional Qwerty keyboards had trapped users in "suboptimal text entry interfaces".
It has been established that normal users using a QWERTY on a touchscreen device are limited to typing at a rate of around 20 words per minute, which is slow compared to the rates achieved on physical keyboards.
Stanford University economic historian Paul David, in the article that introduced the QWERTY story to the economics literature, offers this example of the strong claim: "Competition in the absence of perfect futures markets drove the industry prematurely into standardization on the wrong system where decentralized decision making subsequently has sufficed to hold it."
The Colemak keyboard layout is meant to appease those who are uncomfortable with the QWERTY layout but don't feel like adopting a whole new layout.
India, April 25 -- Intex Mobiles have today announced a new touch and type smartphone with a full QWERTY keyboard called the Aqua Qwerty.
A report from Forbes, citing research firm Detwiler Fenton, said the Blackberry 10 devices wouldn't hit until March, and that the QWERTY version wouldn't come until June.
This model comes with Camera of, 2.0 Mega Pixels Camera with , Digital Zoom, Samsung Intensity III is nimored to come as the successur of the Intensity IL We don't really know how it will took like, but we guess it is going to be a side-sliding QWERTY phone, with a basic camera, limited set of features, and a budget-friendly price tag.
Drogheda, Ireland, July 28, 2012 --(PR.com)-- The QWERTY keyboard that we all use today was originally developed to stop the most frequently used keys on manual typewriters from jamming when typing too fast.
The beTouch E210 is one of only a handful of smartphones to combine a touchscreen, a full Qwerty keyboard and an optical trackpad with the Android 2.2 Froyo operating system, according to a statement.
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