Fastap keypad layout certified for action in China
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Feb 26th 2008 9:21PM
posted Feb 26th 2008 9:21PM
posted Feb 26th 2008 9:21PM
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Writing recognition. Non-smartphones with touchscreens is popular in China since they can write with a stylus.
That phone looks like a calculator. And NOT a scientific one.
Chinese is my third language... I can't see how this will make mixed Chinese/English input any faster. My SE P1i's qwerty keyboard and my previous T9 phones where all OK for inputing English and Chinese (using pinyin).
Am I missing the point, or is "Fastap" just an a keyboard sorted alphabetically? Separating the number and letter buttons can be useful, but to me it seems that the learning curve to use this new keyboard is steep.
No offense to anyone and also I do think culture/language is important but let's be practical here. Not only are character based languages extremely inconvenient for both speakers of the language and non- speakers in terms of technology. Sure we can use them for literature, movies, and even games and so on, but I don't see the efficiency in people buying phones or other devices that contain 50 buttons that 10 buttons on an English keypad could do. Please enlighten me if you are one of these people tha use this sort of thing, I want to know if you use it because you're used to it, or because you prefer it over English. thanks.
lol is it just me or did they forget x and z?