History | Updated: February 25, 2025 | Originally Published: May 3, 2013 The invention’s true origin story has long been the subject of debate. Some argue it was created to prevent typewriter jams, ...

The selection was rather limited last year for people who wanted to purchase a phone-enabled mobile device with a QWERTY thumb keyboard. You had the ever popular RIM BlackBerry models targeted to the ...

The Fire TV and Fire TV Stick are fantastic devices that open up any television to an unending world of streaming content. Typing out your searches, passwords, and other things by hunting around a ...

Last month, NPR asked listeners and readers and a Harvard professor what technologies have stuck around a little too long. "The typewriter keyboard for me is the one that is most amazing," said ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amazon’s Fire TV and Fire TV Stick have been best-sellers forever, and just about everyone who has one loves it. Of course there’s ...

On The Vergecast: one man’s quest to build a better keyboard, AI’s future at Microsoft, and all the thumbs on Netflix. On The Vergecast: one man’s quest to build a better keyboard, AI’s future at ...

Since on-screen keyboards have become significantly easier to work with, most phones leave out the physical keyboard. For improved productivity, however, sometimes you need hard buttons to make typing ...

QWERTY phones were pretty big a few years ago, and today you can still find a phone with keyboard. It was a natural evolution from the standard keypad, and allowed customers to use their smartphones ...

If you've ever changed the keyboard on your Android phone, you probably went with one from Google, Microsoft, or Samsung. But there are many lesser-known keyboards that attempt to reinvent the whole ...

A few years back I was at a convention somewhere and I stumbled into Palm's booth. They were showcasing a small half-qwerty keyboard. I was instantly in love, but didn't have the $$$ to drop on ...

I wouldn't trade my Note 2 for anything in the world, except... A Note 2 slider with full QWERTY hardkeys. GodDAMN do I miss the hardware keyboard. I miss them too. The keyboard on my G2 was a ...