Thread: April 13th - Big News? ("Everyone Connect" Event)
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2010-04-14 , 07:05
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#85
Originally Posted by niqbal View Post
i like the new qwerty keyboard layout (see C6). Seems like they have listened to people complaining about silly keyboard layout on n900 and n97 mini. four row qwerty, a move back towards e75 which is considered the best qwerty layout by nokia.
Don't get fooled by the number of rows. It's a slight improvement, but not much: 44 keys including the d-pad, compared to the N900's 38. The extra keys are Sym (Ctrl+FN on N900), a dedicated @, a couple of more punctuation keys, an extra shift and the d-pad centre button. Just as annoying as the N900 for command-line work.

I really don't get the layout btw. There are a whole bunch of useful symbols missing (and they even asked us which ones we consider important), yet 10 alphabetic keys don't even have a Fn-combination symbol on them.

I really hope they'll do better with the next Maemo device.