Twiddling Your Thumbs Is Finally Productive – iOS 5 Does Split Keyboard
We don’t blog much about Apple products, nor the Apple made operating system iOS, but this particular piece of news is of interest, especially if Google introduces something similar to Android. The latest version of iOS – iOS 5 – that was previewed during the recent WWDC event showed that it will be bringing to the iPad a split keyboard that’s also known as ‘Grab Handles’. What this does is it splits the keyboard into two, placing them on either side of the display and allowing you to type using just your thumbs as you hold, or grip, onto the tablet – perfect for people with short fingers or avid thumb-war warriors. As you may already know, reaching the middle of a regular on-screen keyboard whilst holding with both hands is pretty hard, so this new split keyboard will make typing that much easier. Microsoft seems to also have a similar input for their Windows 8 OS, and ultramobile PCs even had something like it years ago. With Android tablets reaching sizes like 10.1-inches, Android tablets users would surely benefit from an OS input like this.
via tablet-news
Categories: Apple, Other, Software / OS
