"The "butterfly keyboard" which delivered a qwerty experience on a constrained keypad using rocker keys was conceived by Björn Ahlberg who is credited on the patent for this design."
via https://www.mobilephonemuseum.com/phone-detail/sony-ericsson-m600
Wait, oh god, rocker switches? I thought it’d be like T9, where the software just does it’s best guess at which letter you wanted from the key lol
Okay, between this and Apple’s experiments with the ultra thin “butterfly keyboard” design, I’m beginning to wonder if that term was ever used for anything good.
Only way back in the 90s, for the IBM ThinkPad 701's Butterfly Keyboard.
you know what I think this could’ve been okay
does mean you lose the traditional letter relationship with the keys though, making it somehow less compatible with vanity numbers lol
