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: 6,977 Karma: 5183568 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mississippi, USA Device: Kindle 3, Kobo Glo HD	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: 10,234 Karma: 48000000 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: The other land of schnitzel and beer Device: iPad M1 Pro, Kindle Paperwhite	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) 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: 1002683 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: 1002683 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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