Gabrielor believes its new keypad design will make alphanumeric texting a joy rather than a chore. Their secret? Circles.
Although text messaging over SMS has become widely popular, the difficulty of typing full words and sentences on T9 or multi-tap keypads has not. Instead it's given rise to a complete pigeon language of super-abbreviated words. Design company Gabrielor aims to make text entry easy again with their new Rounded Keypad design.
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The Gabrielor Rounded Keypad takes advantage of the human eye's tendency to focus on the center of a circle. Buttons are arranged in three concentric circles, with core function buttons in the middle, surrounded by the most common letters in English doubled up with numbers, followed by the rest of the alphabet in clockwise-alphabetical order. It comes in two versions, one circular and one somewhat oval shaped.
The arrangement of keys makes it possible to put a full alphanumeric keypad into a surface space no larger than a calculator keypad or a modest sized mobile phone keypad. Gabrielor is targeting the Rounded Keypad design, which they have patented, at a variety of devices ranging from mobile phones to remote controls to car and truck dashboards.
Although they have several prototypes available, the company has not announced any shipping products based on the Rounded Keypad design either from themselves or from any potential licensees.
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