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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    03/26/09

    In reply to Samsung U750's Dynamic Keypad Takes It Two Ways
    Yep. I have to agree with the others as to it's aesthetics.


    Still a cool concept though, so don't be too rough on 'em.

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    Image of frigg frigg
    12/07/08

    In reply to Old American Telephone and Telegraph Report Shows What Keypads Could Have Been
    Because we're used to the one we're used to, it seems significantly better than any of the others. But if a time traveller accidentally killed a butterfly on a vacation to prehistoric times, and everything that happened after that was slightly different, including what keypad was chosen, maybe I'd think another one was significantly the right choice.
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    Image of Markarian Markarian
    12/07/08

    @frigg: "Are you kidding? We've elected an iron man in McCain, not that fool weakling Obama!"
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    Image of frigg frigg
    12/07/08

    @markarian: :)
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    Image of Tsiroch Tsiroch
    12/07/08

    In reply to Old American Telephone and Telegraph Report Shows What Keypads Could Have Been
    Maybe I'm missing something. How are IV-A and VI-A different?
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    Image of HawaiianActor HawaiianActor
    12/07/08

    @Tsiroch: good question...
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    Image of duckylam duckylam
    12/07/08

    In reply to Old American Telephone and Telegraph Report Shows What Keypads Could Have Been
    Someone tell me why the telephone keypad is different than a computer keyboard numberpad. Most annoying thing ever.
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    Image of HawaiianActor HawaiianActor
    12/07/08

    @duckylam: i am with you. i don't get it. and my problem with it is that i work at an insurance company, and when people type in their police number on their phone, a lot of times they do it as if they were on a keyboard, and so they punch in a totally different number, and then bitch at me because i need to transfer their dumb ass for putting in the wrong number ARG!


    okay. that was my venting for the time being. we can all carry on now. the crowd can now disperse...

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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    12/07/08

    @duckylam: Personally I have much more trouble with the "rotary numpad" on my Dell keyboard... so annoying waiting for the 9 to come aorund when I'm adding large sums... and just forget about using it for gaming.
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    11/18/08

    In reply to Art Lebedev's Optimus Aux Keypad Finalized, Priced at Around $650
    Fortunately, it's only about 3x what the keyboard *should* have cost.
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    Image of SegamanXero SegamanXero
    11/18/08

    In reply to Art Lebedev's Optimus Aux Keypad Finalized, Priced at Around $650
    I would like something like this for Volume control, muteing and launching a few applications like web browser calculator email client and maybe a few other things. But i dont want to spend THAT MUCH for those features...


    if anyone can help me i would be very happy!

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    Image of frigg frigg
    11/18/08

    In reply to Art Lebedev's Optimus Aux Keypad Finalized, Priced at Around $650
    Seems like a prop from an old sci-fi flick made obsolete by a more futuristic present. I wonder if there's any way for Lebedev to release this in 1990 instead of 2008. Or maybe bundle it with hamsters?
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    11/18/08

    In reply to Art Lebedev's Optimus Aux Keypad Finalized, Priced at Around $650
    This product is DOA. That 7" touchscreen add-on monitor from yesterday is so much cheaper and so much more useful. This really has no purpose that I can see, much less $650 worth of purpose.
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    11/18/08

    this one. Couldn't find the link earlier.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    11/18/08

    In reply to Art Lebedev's Optimus Aux Keypad Finalized, Priced at Around $650
    Seems to me that some enterprising developer could write an iPhone app that would do everything this keypad could do and, frankly, do it not only cheaper but with a far, far better and more versatile touchscreen display. And be wireless to boot.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    11/18/08

    @bosskev: That's crazy talk, I tells ya, crazy talk!!!
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    11/18/08

    @bosskev: It only lacks a tactile feedback though.
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    Image of Vroomtrap Vroomtrap
    11/18/08

    @ripfire: Where do you work that you can afford to pay $648.01 for tactile feedback?
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    11/18/08

    @Joseph: The day I purchase a 10-key for $648.01 is the day I give everyone here on Giz a Telsa Roadster for their birthday.


    But seriously, if you were a traveling auditor bean-counting the whole day and punching in numbers like there's no tomorrow, would you use a 10-key iPhone app over a an actual 10-key USB you can get for $10 bucks on Newegg?

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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    11/18/08

    @bosskev:


    Lauging at myself. Hadn't yet seen this Gizmodo story from only a few hours ago. Oops.


    Yeah, this Lebedev thing is absolutely dead in the water. And not even Jason Voorhees dead, but full-on Natalie Wood dead.

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    Image of jdbaile3 jdbaile3
    11/18/08

    In reply to Art Lebedev's Optimus Aux Keypad Finalized, Priced at Around $650
    we are having companies and banks being bailed out by the government and some company can afford to make $650 keypads?
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    Image of Serolf Divad Serolf Divad
    11/18/08

    @jdbaile3:


    The reason we're bailing out the banks is so that all the tellers can have $650.00 keypads. And when the Optimus Keyboard finally comes out we'll be bailing them out again, for a whole lot more.

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