One important saucer of some smartphone’s success or unfortunate is in the keyboard. How does it feel? How faithful is your typing? How apace crapper you type? How beatific is the layout of the keys? How some rows does it have? And the questions go on and on. Since the determine of a smartphone is to elevate a tralatitious phone to more “computing” power, the knowledge to wage hurried and trusty signaling is bicentric to a phone’s needs.

A consort titled Crocodile Keyboards has invented a papers pending keyboard layout that they conceive module drastically meliorate typewriting on both code and element keyboards for smartphones. The layout utilizes triangles that not exclusive puts “dead” expanse between buttons, feat inferior mis-presses, it is also more auto which allows it to be implemented in a difference of ways/form factors:

The consort has a homepage that is sparsely populated but they name it is fashioned for touchscreens but crapper also be utilised on hardware. Obviously it is MUCH easier for them to move on the code things since every it would verify is sound an APK into Android Market and hoping for the best. Success in the mart could support manufacturers same HTC, Samsung, Motorola and others to take the layout. For a toll of course.

The folks at MobileCrunch hit gotten articulate that the Crocodile Keyboard Android Application module start on Android Market Dec 7th. I crapper prospect you I am hot to essay it discover and I declare you do too. I’m not trusty how such it module support but by the looks of it… it can’t hurt.

It does attain me a shade lightheaded when i look at it though…