Samsung Phone with EInk Keyboard

wallcraft · 05-01-2009, 08:49 PM

Engadget (Samsung Alias 2 launching on May 11, E Ink confirmed?) seems pretty sure the Samsung Alias 2 has an EInk keyboard, with reconfigurable key labels. It also has a dual hinge design like the Samsung SCH-U740 (Alias). So the reconfigurable keyboard helps when switching between portrait and landscape modes. More pictures at phonearena.com.

Andybaby · 05-02-2009, 12:05 AM

cool, but the phone looks stupid, and that Hinge Design breaks all the time, my brother went though 5 of them in 2 years on a similar phone

Dylrob · 05-02-2009, 01:58 AM

Hmm... the only problem I see with an eink keyboard is that you wouldn't be able to backlight the keys. Hopefully they found some way around this. (a phone without lit keys would be useless to me at night)

Andybaby · 05-02-2009, 02:30 AM

the way the keys look, it does seem to have some lights on the keys akin to the prs 700

05-01-2009, 08:49 PM	#1
wallcraft reader Posts: 6,979 Karma: 5183568 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mississippi, USA Device: Kindle 3 and Fire	Samsung Phone with EInk Keyboard Engadget (Samsung Alias 2 launching on May 11, E Ink confirmed?) seems pretty sure the Samsung Alias 2 has an EInk keyboard, with reconfigurable key labels. It also has a dual hinge design like the Samsung SCH-U740 (Alias). So the reconfigurable keyboard helps when switching between portrait and landscape modes. More pictures at phonearena.com. Last edited by wallcraft; 05-01-2009 at 08:53 PM.

05-02-2009, 01:58 AM	#3
Dylrob Murderous Mustela Posts: 6,006 Karma: 7839996 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Sin City Device: Apple iPad (1st Gen) & iPod Touch (4th Gen)	Hmm... the only problem I see with an eink keyboard is that you wouldn't be able to backlight the keys. Hopefully they found some way around this. (a phone without lit keys would be useless to me at night) __________________ My ongoing experience with the Onyx Boox M92 - Episode 2: A Quick Peak Down The Rabbit Hole NEW! "All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's something big and sinister going on in the world." "No, that's perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the universe gets that." Last edited by Dylrob; 05-02-2009 at 02:01 AM.

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05-02-2009, 12:05 AM	#2
Andybaby Wizard Posts: 1,279 Karma: 2683 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: New York Device: PRS-700	cool, but the phone looks stupid, and that Hinge Design breaks all the time, my brother went though 5 of them in 2 years on a similar phone

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Andybaby Wizard Posts: 1,279 Karma: 2683 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: New York Device: PRS-700	the way the keys look, it does seem to have some lights on the keys akin to the prs 700


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