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Technology / Re: Why are the keyboards on calculators and phones different?
« on: 12/08/2016 10:13:36 »
Human Factors basically,
The way you dial on a phone is different to the way you use a calculator, and like the qwerty keyboard, studies were carried out on the best arrangment to make the normal operations easier (for qwerty it was the separation of the commonly used letters to reduce mechanical keys sticking)
The way you dial on a phone is different to the way you use a calculator, and like the qwerty keyboard, studies were carried out on the best arrangment to make the normal operations easier (for qwerty it was the separation of the commonly used letters to reduce mechanical keys sticking)