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Microsoft to Offer Curved 'Thumb' Keyboard in Windows Phone 8

Posted July 2, 2012 at 7:15pm by iClarified · 12055 views
A leaked Microsoft Research presentation has revealed a curved Windows Phone keyboard designed to be used while one handed typing with your thumb, reports WMPowerUser.

The keyboard is designed for one-handed thumb typing without having to look and features several keys clustered together, leveraging disambiguation to decide what word is in fact being typed.

The change would be Microsoft's most radical change to the Western SIP yet, and is reminiscent of the curved keyboards found in the old Microsoft UMPCs.


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