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Show HN: A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones

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83 points QWERTYmini | 1 comments | 10 Dec 25 17:49 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Mobile keyboards today are almost entirely based on the 26-key, 3-row QWERTY layout. Here’s a new 2-row, 16-key alternative designed specifically for smartphones.
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yjftsjthsd-h ◴[10 Dec 25 19:09 UTC] No.46222098[source]▶
I'm not following.

* Does this still expect you to hit every key but some of them need multiple taps?

* Are they doing fancy autocorrect-like magic to decide which letter you meant, and if so why use this instead of taking it one more step and using http://minuum.com/ ?

* Or is it something else?

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sublinear ◴[10 Dec 25 23:25 UTC] No.46225496[source]▶
I just tried this out, and the need to double-tap was a total deal breaker making words like "success" a failure.

The other problem with the way this double tapping works is that I encountered missed spaces or other weirdness if I type too quickly. It's as if it's having trouble detecting new keydown events when another key is still down for a split second.

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1. davtbaum ◴[11 Dec 25 00:26 UTC] No.46226070[source]▶
yeah, I agree. It feels pretty rough to me. On older feature phones, you could accelerate this with a right arrow key which would lock to the key for key duplicates like 'cc' in success. Definitely feels like this needs a dedicated key for doing that