First Fastap phone unveiled

Today at the CTIA Wireless 2004 conference, Digit Wireless, consumer electronics giant LG Electronics and Canadian wireless carrier TELUS Mobility announced an agreement to produce the world's first Fastap-enabled mobile phone, reports InfoSync World.

"Digit Wireless's Fastap keypad allows mobile phone users to quickly and intuitively type text messages and other data using letter, number and punctuation keys arranged neatly around the standard keypad on a mobile phone".

But here is another reason why the launch of this phone is such a good thing.

Digit Wireless has been endorsed publicly by the UK Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID), for it's fastap keyboard, as it's universal design greatly facilitates the entering of data.

Because Fastap keypads have a one-to-one correspondence of each key, they are far easier to use by people who are blind. Because Fastap keypads are faster and have fewer errors they provide significant benefit to people who are deaf and speech-impaired". cf Disabled missing out on mobiles .

For more on enhanced keyboards, check out this category in Textually.

emily | 4:41 PM | Enhanced Keyboards for SMS |
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