Why don't you slide on over here?

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Once upon a time, cell phones with small screens were supplemented with an invention known as the slider keyboard. This advance made texting much more pleasant for fleet-fingered phone users.

Now that touch screens have taken over the market, virtual keyboards are the norm. It’s not always fun trying to cram your digits onto a digital representation (more…)

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Swype is all about swiping, instead of tapping the letters on the keyboard, with Swype all you need to do is swipe the finger between the letters without lifting it to input words. It is considered a faster and easier data input method on virtual keyboards.
Swype for iOS has been unofficially ported by Andrew Liu. But according to Swype CEO who was interviewed by
, the
available on Cydia doesn’t appear to be a port, but developed by Andrew (more…)

, which is Apple ’s new messaging service for 
, 
, which will allow iOS 5 users to send text, photos, videos, contacts, locations and group messages to their family and friends who have an iOS device.
iMessage includes a number of features to the Messages app, which you can check
, but Apple has also resolved one of the minor irritants.
If you are a heavy SMS user, you might have noticed that the keyboard occupies half the screen with (more…)

Folks at Apple .pro report that Apple is working on three prototypes for the next generation
.
Apple .pro claims that one of the
prototype includes a slide-out keyword.
Taiwanese site Apple .pro which has a strong track record when it comes to Apple related news, reports:
Apple .pro claims that the other prototype is an upgraded version of
, with upgraded battery and an 8-megapixel camera compared to iPhone 4’s 5-megapixel camera and with (more…)

If you need to communicate with your colleagues and family in different languages, the iPhone offers a one-tap solution to toggle between the different keyboards. To get started, navigate from the Home Screen to
to add a new language to your active keyboards list. Once done, you simply have to tap on the globe icon beside the space bar on the keyboard to switch to another language.
symbol on your iPhone keyboard? To insert this symbol, you simply (more…)

According to folks at Tidbits, USB headphone/headset will work on the iPad through the connection kit. They have tested making Skype phone calls and “the quality was just terrific”.
Erica Sadun of TUAW reports that users can also connect and use a USB keyboard to the iPad through the connection kit.
iLounge reports that the iPad emails pictures out at 2048×1536 resolution rather than chopping JPEG pictures down to 800×600 as is done with iPhone (more…)

As you can see from the video embedded below, the functionality not only enables remote text input, but also enables the use of function keys to operate the various iPhone controls.
For instance, controls for adjusting the screen brightness, playing music, playlist navigation or volume control may be manipulated with the help of function keys on the Bluetooth keyboard. Additionally, text formatting is also enhanced by the use of keyboard hotkeys (more…)

, this free
lets users substitute their keyboard and mouse with their iDevice, which can now be used to type or control mouse actions on a Mac or PC via a Wi-Fi network. To enable this communication, you will however have to install the Touch Mouse Server software on your computer. The server software comes in both Mac OS X and Windows versions.
The iPhone app itself is very simple and easy to use. The top part of the screen displays the three (more…)

. Additionally, popular iPhone jailbreakers chpwn and Ryan Petrich have also revealed that hacking into the iPad simulator have given them indications of support to a slew of other interesting features that could be supported on iPhone OS 3.2. Here is a list of them. Please do remember that these are still speculations at this point.
that iPhone OS 3.2 has ”
” for video calling. This includes features such as option to accept or decline video (more…)

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) currently on at Las Vegas has introduced us to one solution. This comes from Ion, the manufacturers of USB turnables and cassette decks. Called the iType, it is a physical keyboard with a slot on top for users to fit in their iPhone . iType interacts with the iPhone through the device's docking port to help you type quicker with the keyboard.
This is arguably the more sophisticated among all the keyboard add-ons (more…)