Ever thought the buttons on your cellphone were too small, too close together, or in the wrong place? To take account of people’s differing digits and diverse dexterities, cellphone maker Nokia is developing a phone with a touch-screen keypad that learns which “button” layout best suits its user, and automatically adjusts it.
In a world patent application (WO 03/107168) Nokia describes software in the phone that records the key presses that are corrected by the user and the double depressions which occur when a fingertip falls between two buttons. It then uses this information to rearrange the layout of the…
