http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/ Engadget Comments for Prototype mobile showcases e-ink keypad http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/Oct 3rd 2007 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/Oct 3rd 2007 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/Oct 3rd 2007 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/Oct 3rd 2007 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/Oct 3rd 2007 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/
"We see a good fifteen or twenty concept phones for every device that actually sees production, but since some folks bothered to throw together a physical ****prototype**** here, we're cautiously optimistic this thing might see the light of day."

Prototype = tinkered together thingy to illustrate and refine the idea. NOT the end product.

*pfff*]]>Oct 3rd 2007 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/Oct 3rd 2007 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/
Yeah, no one would ever want a dynamic touch interface... **cough**iPhone**cough**]]>Oct 4th 2007 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/Oct 3rd 2007 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/
That should be also thrown into computer keyboards! So you can see the keys change from one keyboard layout/language/IME to another. I sometimes switch from English-US to Russian to Korean-IME to Tamil to ..., and it's often hard for me to memorize which key is which on each layout/IME without having to pop up an onscreen soft-keyboard (which sometimes fails to refresh text; especially Windows On-Screen keyboard for which you can't even adjust the keys' size!) or even physically replace the keyboard hardware itself! e-ink will solve it all without going the costly, power-hungry optical way...]]>Oct 3rd 2007 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/Oct 3rd 2007 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/Oct 3rd 2007 7:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/Oct 3rd 2007 7:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/Oct 3rd 2007 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/Oct 3rd 2007 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/Oct 3rd 2007 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/Oct 3rd 2007 9:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/
http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/27/hitachi-showing-off-color-version-of-albirey-e-paper/
there are a couple more articles, but im lazy and dont feel like posting them =D]]>Oct 4th 2007 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/prototype-mobile-showcases-e-ink-keypad/Oct 3rd 2007 10:41PM