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MWg Zinc II and E-Ten Glofiish M810: Two peas in a pod

Crave The Zinc II has a slide-out keypad with raised edges so you can find the keys better. There are barely any differences between these two handsets, but you'll notice that the keys on the keypad aren't fully surrounded by a raised edge, which may or...

9 May 2008, 13:03

Hands-on with the LG KF510: Adding a little sparkle to your life

Crave The slide-out keypad for dialling and texting is very well designed and easy to use because of its large keys. Be warned though -- if you've never used touch-sensitive keys before, you might find this difficult to get used to.

Tags: lg electronics, keys, press, pad

10 April 2008, 11:49

Nokia 5310, 5610, N81 and N95 8GB unveiled

Crave Other features include support for a 4GB microSD card that will store up to 3,000 songs, an FM radio, dedicated music keys and one of our favourite features, a 3.5mm headphone jack, so you can use a normal pair of headphones with it.

30 August 2007, 18:14

Photos: Sony Ericsson unveils the W880i, K810i and others

Crave The K810i is the K800i's successor and features new keys on the front and a new soft-key system that converts the keys on the left side into camera keys. When you activate the camera, small camera-function symbols light up and you can use the 1, 4...

6 February 2007, 15:47

Samsung prototype laptop uses AMOLED display

Crave This raises all sorts of questions, though: will resting your fingers on the keys cause the laptop to go ballistic? Is this an effective, or even feasible, substitute for real keys? While on a trip to visit Samsung in South Korea last week, the...

Tags: displays, laptops, laptop, keys

20 May 2008, 11:28

Photos: Hands-on the Samsung R700 with Intel Penryn

Crave It's all very neat and tidily arranged -- with most keys where you expect to find them. The only exception here is the annoying backwards arrangement of the Fn and Ctrl keys. On an ordinary desktop keyboard, Ctrl is located at the very bottom left...

8 April 2008, 12:30

Photos: Hands-on with the Sony Ericsson W980 Walkman

Crave So far it's been a reasonably pleasant experience using the W980, although the circular keys on the keypad are too widely spaced, which makes texting at speed tricky. The keypad is decent enough, but it takes some getting used to, thanks to the...

1 August 2008, 12:32

Photos: Hands-on with the Zenum Opus

Crave The full Qwerty keypad is relatively easy to use, although the keys do feel a little squashed together and there's no scroll wheel or pearl-like trackball to navigate, instead you need to use the four-way navigation key or the touch screen, which...

23 May 2007, 12:19

Photos: Hands-on for longer with Apple's MacBook Air

Crave The keyboard is as large as the new iMac keyboard, so typing on it is instantly comfortable, with no need to adjust to tiny keys. The keys are similarly weightless and that raised portion you can see below the display is where you'll find the built...

16 January 2008, 11:59

T-Mobile Ameo: HTC Athena coming to the UK

Crave The keys look well spaced and large enough to press without needing a toothpick. It's good to see there are plenty of dedicated soft keys around and we love the large screen. Before we headed off to CES we got wind of an HTC device called the Athena.

26 January 2007, 11:15

A blueprint for the perfect phone

Crave The keys should also be slightly raised in the middle, similar to the Motorola Q 9's keypad, so that they're easy to find with your thumb. Keys you can push produce the kind of tactile feedback that lets you know you've done something without...

18 June 2007, 14:24

Photos: Lenovo IdeaPad S10 is officially gorgeous

Crave And you like the look of the keyboard keys, too. We've found one problem: the Fn and Ctrl keys are the wrong way round. That's right, we're rollin' global, baby. The following snaps are of the 10-inch S10, which is arguably the most interesting of...

7 August 2008, 15:13

Photos: Hands on with the Samsung Q1 Ultra

Crave The keys are a tad fiddly to begin with, but we achieved a pretty accurate 30 words per minute (-ish) after some practice. There's an integrated TrackPoint-style mouse 'nipple' in the centre and selector keys towards the front edge.

15 March 2007, 16:32

Nokia 7900 Prism: If triangles ruled the world

Crave One of the most bizarre features is its collection of entirely triangular keys. It's just not very usable -- the keys are too fiddly for our liking. Variety, according to people wiser than us, is the spice of life -- and Nokia's 7900 Prism is...

Tags: nokia

15 January 2008, 10:57

Toshiba G450: Small but perfectly odd

Crave Its keys are spread across two separate button clusters and the screen is only big enough to accommodate three lines of text -- so it's pretty difficult to use at first. Toshiba isn't well known for its mobile phones, but it does make them.

Tags: toshiba, modem, cum, broadband

22 February 2008, 9:42