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Telus introducing world's first cellphone with Fastap keyboard

LG 61290 Fastap

So back in March, Canadian wireless carrier Telus Mobility was all set to introduce the world's first cellphone using Digit Wireless' Fastap cellphone keyboard, a modified LG 5450 handset. Fastap squeezes a full alphabetical keyboard onto a cellphone keypad by interspersing lowered number keys between raised letter keys, but it must not have been quite ready yet or something, because the phone never materialized and we didn't hear a peep from Telus (or anyone else) about it again. Anyway, now eight months later Telus is back with another LG cellphone with a Fastap keyboard, the LG 6190, and this time they swear it really is for sale.