Qwerty

​What's old is new. While companies like Samsung and Huawei race to bring modern folding phones to market, UK-based F(x)tec is focusing its efforts on another blast from the past – the slide-out keyboard. The startup's Pro1 smartphone has been launched at Mobile World Congress 2019.​

LG has brought the flexibility of rollable keyboards and the rigidity of foldable keyboards together in its Rolly Keyboard, which it calls the industry's first solid rollable wireless portable keyboard.

A bi-national team of researchers has designed two prototypes of soft keyboards for wearable devices. Callout creates a callout of the character requested while ZShift. enhances the callout area with one level of zoom of the occluded area.

California-based WayTools has taken a different approach to typing on the go with its TextBlade keyboard, which it claims is the "most compact touch-type machine ever produced" and literally pulls apart to fit in a pocket.

The iControlPad2 is a Bluetooth controller that is filled with options.

The Spike keyboard case combo for iPhone features a hinged physical keyboard that flips up to provide easy access to the full touchscreen.

Snapkeys 2i is a four-key typing system app for mobile devices, that is said to be much more efficient than the standard QWERTY virtual keyboard.

The itablet Thumb Keyboard not only puts a physical QWERTY keyboard at your fingertips – well, thumbtips – but also boasts a rear-facing touchpad that lets users provide touch inputs without taking their hands off the device.

SmartFish Technologies’ ergonomic Engage Keyboard that automatically changes position to reduce the stress placed on users’ wrists and hands is now available.

The 8pen app for Android touch phones offers a faster and more natural text input app for small devices, which mimics handwriting and eliminates typos.

Designer Billy May has come up with a mobile phone concept called the “Seabird” that is designed to address some of the frustrations people face when using such physically small devices.

The Jorno Bluetooth keyboard is a physical full QWERTY keyboard with a full complement of function keys that folds down to a pocket-friendly size.