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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type"><title>Input Mechanisms</title></head><body><h1>Input Mechanisms</h1><h2><a name="Keyboard"></a>Keyboard</h2>Keyboard is an input device used to type numbers and text intoa cellphone, laptop or operating system of a computer. Following arethe two types of keyboards:<br><ol><li>T9 Keyboard</li><li>QWERTY Keyboard</li></ol><h3><a name="T9_Keyboard"></a>T9 Keyboard</h3>T9 stands for text on 9 keys. A T9 keyboard is the replacement forQWERTY style keyboard. Mobile phones with T9 keyboard have 9 large sizekeys. While using a T9 keyboard, users don't have to tap on the exactalphabet, instead they will have to tap on the button that has thedesired alphabet.<br><br>The <a href="Predictive%20Texting.html">predictive texting</a> in a T9 keyboard makes SMS messaging easier asit reduces the multiple tapping problems in the keyboard. <br><br><img alt="" src="image/LG_Arena_keypad.jpg" border="0"><br><h3><a name="QWERTY_Keyboard"></a>QWERTYKeyboard</h3>QWERTY keyboard is just like the regular keyboard of personalcomputers. It is termed as a QWERTY keyboard because the first sixletter keys on the top row spell QWERTY. This type of keyboard wasdesigned in the early 1870s to optimize the typing speed ontypewriters to prevent jamming. Many cellphones these days come with aQWERTY keyboard as it makes typing easier and faster in comparison toT9 keyboard.<br><br><img alt="" src="image/3268380875_7a8eb62254.jpg" border="0"><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"></span></span></body></html>