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Jan92020 by adminNo Comments

CES 2020: Samsung’s invisible keyboard for smartphones

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Samsung has developed a way for smartphone owners to type on a table or other surface as an alternative to tapping on the handset's own screen.Its SelfieType software tracks the user's fingers via the phone's front-facing camera and works out where the taps would correspond to being on a Qwerty keyboard.Chris Fox tried it out at the CES tech expo in Las Vegas to see if it works in practise.Catch up on all the BBC's coverage from CES 2020Let's block ads! (Why?) BBC News - Technology

Sep232017 by adminNo Comments

The long wait for a Persian iPhone keyboard

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Android devices as well as Apple computers have Persian keyboards, but until this week the option wasn't available on Apple phones or iPads. For years Persian speakers used the Arabic keyboard on the iPhone, which was not really ideal for writing quickly or accurately in Persian. There were lots of petitions to Apple, pressing them to add a Persian keyboard to mobile phones. That finally paid off with the latest release.Arabic and Persian keyboards are very similar. But there are two major issues - the four extra letters in Persian - and the "half space" feature needed for a well-edited Persian message.In order to type the extra four letters in our alphabet we had to press and hold another letter and wait for a window to pop up so we could drag our finger on it and see it on screen. Yet th...