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Chapter 1: Gathering What You Need to Develop BlackBerry Apps
As long as I’m talking about keyboards, there’s one more thing you need to
know. BlackBerry smartphones offer two different types of keyboards for
users:
✓ SureType: You find this keyboard on the BlackBerry Pearl and Pearl
Flip smartphones, as well as a BlackBerry Storm when in portrait mode.
Figure 1-8 shows an image of a Pearl with its keyboard. Because the
keyboard has fewer keys than a normal keyboard, SureType provides
two letters for each key, and the keyboard is laid out like a regular
QWERTY keyboard. SureType attempts to predict what a user is typing
to speed up the entry of data. Some BlackBerry models with SureType
offer a mode called Multitap, where the first tap of a key enters the first
letter for that key, and a quick double-tap enters the second letter for
that key.
Figure 1-8:
The
BlackBerry
Pearl and its
SureType
keyboard,
with its
guesses for
the word I
type.
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