Picture the keypad of a telephone and calculator side by side. Can you see the subtle difference between the two without resorting to your smartphone? Don’t worry if you can’t recall the design. Most ...

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A standard phone keypad consisting of the numbers from 0 to 9 and including the signs "*" and "#". Alphanumeric keypads are an upgrade to those and are used to enter text as well as numbers. They ...

Sometimes clunky old technologies hang around much longer than the problems they originally solved. The 12-button alphanumeric telephone keypad is a prime example. The letters on each key–“ABC” on the ...

Looks like peripheral maker ORTek has managed to find a way to distinguish itself from the seemingly endless stream of Skype phones flooding the market with its latest offering, the Skypad -- a ...

Check out this cool iPhone App from Balmuda Design, called NumberKey, which lets you turn your iPhone into a numeric keypad. Now you can add a numeric keypad to your MacBook or MacBook Pro, with this ...