Unlike our transatlantic pals – who rarely make actual phone calls these days if they can get away with it – we almost never send text messages, mainly because we find tapping away on a cellphone keypad to be a major annoyance. Fitting a full alpha-keyboard into a handset isn’t easy, but it looks like Digit Wireless has done it with the Fastap, which intersperses lowered number keys between raised letter keys. MobileBurn was able to play with a Panasonic GD87 handset modified for use with a Fastap keypad, and confirms that the first phones featuring the new keypad will start appearing by the end of the year.
