Since the day the iPhone was introduced critics have slammed the Apple device for its lack of a QWERTY keyboard - but the iPhone’s soft keyboard may still be an improvement on alternatives in the mobile device space.
Now, we’re not saying this is scientific, but website designer, programmer and manager, Phil Gyford, took little time to run a typing test on a number of devices - and found the iPhone to be more effective than those fiddly mini-QWERTY physical mobile keyboards.
He tested:
The Apple Newton MessagePad 2100’s handwriting recognition (1997)
The Palm Vx’s Graffiti (1999)
The Palm Treo 650’s hardware QWERTY keyboard (2004)
The Apple iPhone 3G’s software QWERTY keybo
