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2.5. TEXT INPUT
The mobile computer has a physical keypad and a touchscreen to receive user’s input.
Among the two, the touchscreen provides more intuitiveness than the physical keypad to
interact with the device.
This section shows how to input text using physical keypad and onscreen keyboard. To
know how to touch-control the mobile computer, see Touch Control
.
2.5.1. PHYSICAL KEYPAD
The physical keypad sitting front the mobile computer is quite an advanced one with much
resemblance to laptop or PC keyboards. It supports multi-key operation, which normally
requires two keys hit simultaneously, one of which a modifier key,
The physical keypad is either a numeric type or a QWERTY one. Each wedges a set of
“enhanced keys” along the top and a set of character keys at the lower half.
As for entering text, the numeric and QWERTY keypad are equally capable of entering
numbers, letters, symbols and a few punctuations. Both also receive supplementary
backlight as the screen does.
Figure 6: Numeric Keypad Figure 7: QWERTY Keypad
“ENHANCED KEYS”
“Enhanced keys” are arranged along the top of physical keypad and separated from
character keys. Use these “enhanced keys” to launch actions from the mobile computer and
O.S., cause the active application to work, or switch physical keypad between input modes.
Navigation keys are included also to move the caret in a text input field.