The Secret Of Virtual Keyboard Blackberry 10

Virtual keyboards are not new to the BlackBerry, has been used in the BlackBerry Storm series-but it seemed to fail. In the BlackBerry 10, the virtual keyboard to offer a completely new and even claimed to be best in class. The first model to use the new virtual keyboard is BlackBerry Z10.

"Virtual Keyboard BlackBerry 10 touch panel that combines hardware and software virtual keyboard is designed for two years," said Thad were entrusted with the design of the keyboard on the BlackBerry project 10.

According to Thad, behind the response you feel, feedback that you can, and low latency Z10 keyboard there is something kompleks.Thad said "You will be amazed when you can see how the complexity of the algorithms that we apply to this virtual keyboard,"

Able to learn

The same experience when using the physical keyboard also presented here. It can be seen from the shape that is almost the same as a physical keyboard Q10-owned BB10 devices that use a physical keyboard. The design is expected to help users to type quickly without making mistakes.


The words were not merely predictable from an existing database, but it can "learn" from the words that are often used by users. So, words are not always predictable raw words.

Comfortable keyboard layout and features forecasters said this is a mainstay of virtual keyboards BlackBerry 10 so that the user can type quickly and simply using one hand only.

Robot fingers

The process of designing a virtual keyboard BB10 conducted in the laboratory which houses a robotic finger to press the keyboard. Virtual keyboard on the BlackBerry Z10 has been tested by hundreds of thousands of times as much pressed by the fingers of the robot.

There is also a high speed camera is used to measure the latency of the touch capabilities of the keyboard.

One of the advantages of keyboard Z10 is able to predict which words will be typed by the user. This ability, according to Thad, is unique because it has not been found in other operating systems. With his expertise in the field of linguistics, Thad devote his ability to be a word prediction feature can be useful, and a mainstay of BlackBerry 10