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3 unusual facts about QWERTY


Design paradigm

A current example is the laptop: as of 2010 the design paradigm of laptops includes a portable computer unit consisting of a QWERTY keyboard, a hinged screen, etc.

IColorType

By using color coding on the standard QWERTY keyboard, user's brain naturally makes color associations, and learns which fingers use the appropriate letter, number and symbol keys.

QIK

In later versions the physical keyboard was disposed of and replaced with a logical keypad represented as a quadrant on the user's screen mapped to standard QWERTY keyboard (F1-F12) function keys.


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Dead key

The basic US keyboard does not have any dead keys, but the US-International keyboard layout, available on Windows and the X Window System, places some dead keys directly on similar-looking punctuation marks.

Gideon: Tuba Warrior

After congratulating the Pirates for a good job on the show, Qwerty gives a verse and the Captain declares his desire to make a Pirates Who Don't Do Anything movie.

Orange Rio

It is sold on the Orange network, and is a BlackBerry-styled phone directed to people on budgets or young users, with a QWERTY keyboard and a 2.4in touchscreen.

Remington Rand

Initially produced by Remington Arms, the Remington Typewriters were the first to use the QWERTY keyboard layout.

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini

Text input is done via a virtual keypad on the Mini and a full QWERTY, QWERTZ, or AZERTY slide-out keyboard on the X10 mini pro.


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