QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year

image via gizmodo.com
image via gizmodo.com

After dying a painful death at the hand of the iPhone’s revolutionary capacitive touchscreen, the QWERTY smartphone is rising up from the graveyard this year. Either way, two QWERTY phone announcements in this still very new year suggest there may be some kind of trend. Maybe after 19 years of the iPhone and touchscreens defining the mobile experience, it’s time to go back to the physical keyboard and its more tactile typing.

https://gizmodo.com/qwerty-phones-are-really-trying-to-make-a-comeback-this-year-2000709717

Apple continues work on all-glass MacBook with virtual keyboard and trackpad

image via 9to5mac.com
image via 9to5mac.com

Apple famously dispensed with a physical keyboard when it revolutionized the smartphone market, and the company’s long-term goal appears to be to do the same for laptops. A succession of patents have revealed Apple’s work on an all-screen MacBook with a virtual trackpad and keyboard, and a new continuation patent published yesterday shows that this project is still very much alive …

https://9to5mac.com/2024/10/02/apple-continues-work-on-all-glass-macbook-with-virtual-keyboard-and-trackpad/