TWI538467B - Alternative inputs of a mobile communications device and the method thereof - Google Patents

Description

Alternative input of mobile communication device and method thereof

The present invention relates to an alternate input to a mobile communication device.

Mobile communication devices, such as wireless phones, have become an integral part of everyday life. For example, when a user is away from a stationary communication device such as a home or office wired telephone, the user typically uses the mobile communication device to make and receive calls. In some instances, when the user communicates with another user, the user is accustomed to using the wireless communication device as the primary communication device because of the convenience and functionality of the wireless communication device.

The communication technology that may be used in wireless communication devices is increasing. For example, traditionally, users only use wireless communication devices for telephone communication, and advanced requirements have emerged to provide a variety of other communication technologies, such as text messages and emails. However, the inclusion of these additional communication technologies on mobile communication devices with traditional form factors may result in a large and reduced suitability of the mobile applications of these devices. For example, when a conventional mobile communication device is applied, the conventional input device used in the communication technology may reduce the adaptability.

An alternative input to a mobile communication device is disclosed. In one implementation, a mobile communication device includes a display device having a touch screen function, a keyboard having a plurality of physical buttons, and one or more modules, wherein the physical buttons include a dedicated button and are arranged according to QWERTY Arrange the alphabetic keys. The one or more modules are configured to output a user interface to select a dedicated button on the display device. The user interface has a plurality of portions, and the portions are provided by the touch screen function A selection is made to produce an input of a respective emoji in a plurality of emojis.

In one implementation, it is determined that one of the keyboards of one of the mobile communication devices has been selected. If the entity letter button is not selected within a specified time, enter one of the letters corresponding to the entity letter button. If the entity letter button has been selected for a specified time, then the display includes one of the letters instead of the input, and the display of the substitute input can be selected to generate the input of the substitute input.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is described in terms of a simplified version, which is further described in the following embodiments. The above summary is not intended to identify key features or essential features of the claimed subject matter, and is not intended to limit the scope of the claimed subject matter.

Users are continually seeking to enhance the functionality of mobile communication devices, such as gaming devices, wireless telephone devices, mobile communication devices, and calendar devices. For example, users can maintain a calendar of events, a list of contacts, send and receive text messages, access the Internet, send and receive emails, take photos, and transmit status messages (such as status updates) to a social network. Wait. However, due to the traditional form factor that maintains the "portability" of the device, the interaction between the new functions in conventional mobile communication devices can be difficult. In general, small buttons cause use. The difficulty, and/or the large form factor that provides sufficient space for each button on the keyboard, will make portability smaller and smaller.

For example, a "QWERTY" keypad on a mobile communication device has a limited space for each button on a standard keyboard, such as a keyboard-type environment for inputting a Latin keyboard. Thus, the size of the buttons and/or the number of buttons contained on the device is limited and often needs to be balanced between the two, such as the number of buttons and the expected size of the button.

Therefore, traditional manufacturers of QWERTY mobile communication devices (such as wireless handsets) may load second and third functions, such as most of the keys, on the marked portion of the button. For example, each button has three functions, and the already small button must contain three labels (such as symbols) on it to describe each function. Therefore, the load of the physical button having the second and third functions can make the keyboard as a whole complicated. As such, the QWERTY keyboard of a traditional mobile communication device is often locked in business rather than consumer use. Therefore, the inclusion of an extended function on each button may make it more difficult to find the desired button function. For example, the desired button function may be hidden in a button function sea, which cannot be used equally by the user.

In one or more implementations, the functionality of a physical button (such as a QWERTY keyboard) is combined with a display device (such as a touch screen), and the physical button is pressed to the display device to offload the input replacement function (eg, Alternative input). For example, a dedicated hardware button may be used to load a library of second and third functions for display on the display device. For example, a button labeled as a punctuation smile ";)" can be used to load punctuation and/or emoji. Thus, the physical keyboard can be simplified to include the first and second functions that are often used to make these functions easy to use and frequently used, thereby providing a keyboard with increased acceptability in the consumption space.

Moreover, these techniques can be used to enhance the resiliency of the mobile communication device to provide special characters (such as second and/or third functions) for a particular location. For example, characters are typically utilized to be recognized in a particular geographic location. Instead of resetting the physical keyboard, it is better to select by using the touch screen function of the mobile communication device so that the characters can be output. The output of utilizing the display device to place the second and third functions not presented on a physical keyboard will be further discussed in Figures 2, 3, and 5.

In one implementation, at least one physical button on a keyboard of a mobile communication device is configured to be selected to load an additional function, the additional function being used for the physical button, and may or may not be on the physical button Specified. For example, a user can press and hold a button and have a tone symbol that is automatically loaded with the button to be associated with a derived set of one of the physical buttons. For example in the Spanish word "SE In IOR, the tilde character "~" can be used with Combine. To load the degenerate symbol character, the user can press and continue to press "N" on the keyboard to load an N-derived set of accent symbols on the display device. A user can then select from the derived set, for example using a touch screen or other indicator control device. In this way, the confusion caused by the multi-function label on the keyboard can be improved, and these functions can be used by the user. Other embodiments of various embodiments may also be considered in detail, and will be discussed in Figures 4 and 6.

In the following discussion, various embodiments of a mobile communication device, such as a radiotelephone, will be described. Moreover, various embodiments of the various functions that can be used by the mobile communication device are described in each embodiment, which can be implemented in the embodiments as well as other described embodiments. Thus, the practice of the embodiments illustrates some of the various implementations that may be considered. Further, although a mobile communication device having one or more modules provided with the provided telephone function has been described, various other mobile devices, such as personal digital assistants (PDAs), may also be considered. Mobile music player, dedicated messaging device, portable gaming device, and the like.

Example implementation

1 illustrates an embodiment 100 of a mobile communication device 102 in accordance with one or more embodiments of a device, feature, and system for mobile communication. The mobile communication device 102 is operable to take a plurality of configurations, including a configuration in which the device has been closed and an embodiment in which the configuration of the device is turned on as shown in FIG.

The mobile communication device 102 can be further illustrated as including a first housing 104 and a second housing 106 that are coupled by rails 108 such that the first housing 104 and the second housing 106 can move relative to each other (eg, slip). . Although the guide rails have been described above, various other movable connection techniques, such as a pivot, a hinge, etc., should be easily and obviously considered.

The first housing 104 includes a display device 110, and the display device 110 can be used to output various types of materials, such as a utterer identification data, information about a text message as shown, an e-mail, a multimedia message, an Internet browsing, Play games, music, videos, and more. In the illustrated implementation, the composite touch screen functions, such as: capacitive, surface acoustic wave, resistive, optical, strain gauge (strain gauge) ), dispersive signals, acoustic pulses, and other touch screen functions, the display device 110 can also be configured to function as an input device.

As shown, the second housing 106 has a keyboard 112 that can be used to provide input to the mobile communication device 102. Although the keyboard 112 is illustrated as a QWERTY keyboard, various other embodiments are contemplated, such as a keyboard that follows a conventional telephone keypad arrangement (eg, a numeric keypad of twelve keys that can be found on a basic telephone) ), keyboards configured in other languages (such as Cyrillic), and so on.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, the first outer casing 104 and the second outer casing 106 of the mobile communication device 102 are approximately square. For example, a plane defined by an outer surface of the display device 110 can be parallel to a plane of the first housing 104 that is approximately square, which can be the same or different from the plane defined by the display device 110. . In other words, the plane of the first outer casing 104 is parallel to the other surface of the display device 110, and the width and height of the plane are roughly one to one. Likewise, the second outer casing 106 can be considered a square along a plane that is parallel and/or identical to an outer surface of the keyboard 112 disposed on the second outer casing 106.

The mobile communication device 102 can employ a "closed configuration" by sliding the housings together using the rails 108 such that the first housing 104 covers the second housing 106. Thus, the keyboard 112 disposed on the second housing 106 can be covered and become incapable of interacting with a user of the mobile communication device 102. In one implementation, when the mobile communication device 102 is in the closed configuration, the functionality of the phone can still be used, such as when a call is received.

As shown in the embodiment of FIG. 1, the first housing 104 is moved (e.g., slid) by the second housing 106 using the rail 108 in the "on" configuration. In this embodiment configuration, at least a substantial portion of the keys in the keyboard 112 are exposed so that the exposed keys can be used to provide input. The open configuration causes an unfolded form factor of the mobile communication device 102 to be in contrast to the form factor of the mobile communication device 102 in the closed configuration. In one implementation, the first outer casing 104 and the second outer casing 106 are used to define the unfolding shape factor, and the planes of the first outer casing 104 and the second outer casing 106 are parallel to each other, and other implementation manners Can also be considered in detail.

This form factor employed by the mobile communication device 102 can be adapted to support a wide variety of features. For example, the keyboard 112 is shown to support a QWERTY configuration. This form factor is particularly convenient for the user to utilize the aforementioned functions of the mobile communication device 102, such as writing text, playing games, confirming emails, browsing the web, providing status messages to a social network, and the like.

In the mobile communication device 102 of Fig. 1, a portion of the keys of the keyboard 112 are shown as having multiple functions. For example, a digital keypad can be provided in the QWERTY arrangement, which will respectively be "w", "e", "r", "s", "d", "f", "z", "x" "c", "." means "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "0". The numbers are obtained by pressing the "ALT" button on the keyboard 112. Other embodiments of various formulas are also contemplated, and embodiments thereof may be found to be associated with the following figures.

The mobile communication device 102 is also shown as including a communication module 114. The communication module 114 represents the function of the mobile communication device and communicates via the network 116. For example, the communication module 114 can include a telephone function to make and receive calls. The communication module 114 can also include various other functions, such as generating short message service (SMS) text messages, multimedia messaging service (MMS) messages, and status messages for social networks. and many more. For example, a user can generate a status message to communicate with a social networking website via the network 116. The social networking website can then post the status message to the user's "friends", for example, the friends can receive through the computer, individual mobile communication devices, and the like. Various other embodiments are also contemplated, such as blogging, instant messaging, and the like.

The communication module 114 can be further configured to include a user interface module 118 that is a representation of the functional characteristics of the mobile communication device 102 to generate, output, and manage the user interface 120 on the display device 110. For example, the user interface 120 illustrated in FIG. 1 is configured as SMS text messaging, and is used by a user of the mobile communication device 102 and another mobile communication device that transmits the network 116. A pair of conversations between users.

As mentioned above, in a keyboard having second and third functions, the conventional load of the physical buttons may cause the keyboard as a whole to be complicated. In addition, the inclusion of an alternate function indicator on each physical button may make it difficult to find a desired button, such as the desired button function may be buried in a button sea. Thus, the user interface module 118 can separate the functions 122, such that a portion of the function 122 can be used via the physical button input 124, and an alternate function can be used through the display button input 126. As such, the user interface module 118 can utilize the user interface 120 to provide alternate input without the clutter of the keyboard 112, which will be further discussed in the following figures.

In general, any of the functions described herein can be implemented using software, firmware, hardware (such as fixed logic), manual processing, or a combination of the above. The terms "module", "functionality" and "logic" as used herein generally refer to software, firmware, hardware or a combination of software and firmware. In terms of software implementation, the module, functional or logical representation of instructions (such as code), a computer system of one or more computers having one or more processors (such as CPUs or CPUs) Perform specific tasks on it. The instructions can be stored in one or more physical computer readable memory devices. The alternate input technology feature to be described below is platform-independent, i.e., the technology can be implemented on a variety of commercial computer platforms having a variety of processors.

FIG. 2 illustrates an embodiment implementation 200 in which a user interface is outputted by the mobile communication device 102 in FIG. 1, and the user interface is configured to utilize the functionality of the display device to achieve an input of an alternate function. . The keyboard 112 includes a plurality of physical buttons that contain alphabetic keys arranged in accordance with the QWERTY arrangement as previously described.

A subset of the physical keys in the keyboard 112 includes an alphanumeric indication that can be used for input. For example, the physical buttons respectively indicate "w", "e", "r", "s", "d", "f", "z", "x", "c", "." The numbers "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9" and "0" are shared. The numbers can be entered in a variety of ways, such as by simultaneously pressing the ALT button with one or more buttons in the subset. For example, by pressing the ALT button and the "w" button (the flag of the number "1" is also marked thereon), the number key "1" can be input. Thus, in this embodiment, a user can easily provide an input of letters or numbers by directly and completely interacting with the keyboard 112.

In this embodiment, the mobile communication device 102 can be configured to "offload" instead of inputting to the display device 110 for input. For example, a user may select a dedicated physical button 202 (represented as containing one of the emoticons formed using punctuation) such that a plurality of portions 204 are displayed on the user interface 120 to provide an alternate input. The alternate inputs representing this embodiment contain non-alphanumeric characters such as punctuation and emoticons. Punctuation marks are symbols that are different from letters or numbers and are used in written languages (such as ";"). Emoji is used to express facial expressions by using punctuation such as ":", punctuation and letters such as ":p" and not using punctuation such as " "Equivalent means. In this embodiment, the portion 204 is represented as a button that can be selected using the touch screen function of the display device.

For example, the portion 204 in FIG. 2 includes a punctuation button that can be selected by touching the display device 110 with a finger, using a stylus, etc., to cause another input. Although the touch screen function has been described, various other functions can be utilized to select functions displayed on the display device 110, such as a cursor control device.

In one embodiment, the user interface module 118 uses the display device 110 to achieve an "unload" replacement input, which includes punctuation marks and passes through respective punctuation keys, for example, including "@", "#", "$", "&", "<", ">", "/", "?" and "!". The user interface 120 also includes a display that includes an emoji" In one embodiment, the display image of the button can be selected in the user interface 120 to directly output the emoji, such as by pressing the display device to use the touch screen function. In another embodiment, the button can be selected to access a sub-menu having a plurality of emoticons, which will be further discussed in the following figures.

FIG. 3 illustrates an embodiment implementation 300 that provides a user interface to provide an alternate input of a plurality of emoticons, and the user interface outputs to correspond to the interaction of the user interface 120 of FIG. In this embodiment, the user interface 120 includes a plurality of portions, each portion having a respective emoticon, and which can be selected such that the individual emoticons are output. For example, with the emoji" "The display image of the button 304 is indicated in an SMS text message to provide 306 input.

Although the user interface 120 having the portion 304 that can be selected to input the emoticon is described as a sub-menu accessible via the punctuation menu of FIG. 2, various other options are contemplated. Example. For example, the physical button 202 with an emoticon can be selected to cause the emoticon library to be output directly. In this example, another physical button may be dedicated to punctuation so that selection of the other physical button may result in direct output of the punctuation library depicted in FIG.

Therefore, as shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 3, the functionality of a physical button in a keyboard 112 (eg, a QWERTY-arranged keyboard) can be combined with the display device 110 (eg, a touch screen) to be used by the keyboard 112. The selected second and third functions are unloaded onto the display device 110. Thus, the physical keyboard 112 can be simplified, including the first and second functions that are most commonly used, to make these functions easy to use and frequently used. Although some embodiments of the unloading function have been described, it should be readily apparent that various functions may be unloaded without departing from the spirit and scope thereof, which will be further discussed in the following figures.

Figure 4 illustrates an embodiment implementation 400 that displays an alternate input on a display device in response to selection of a physical button of the mobile communication device 102 in Figure 1, relating to one of the physical buttons A feature. For example, one of the physical keys 402 of the keyboard 112 contains a mark indicating the letter "a". Therefore, when the user selects the physical button 402 and does not select another physical button (such as the ALT button), the first function of the physical button 402 is to input the letter "a".

In one implementation, if the physical button is selected within a specified time, the user interface module 118 can be configured to cause the alternate input to display a particular physical button. For example, the user can "press" the physical button 402 for two seconds, which can cause the user interface module 118 to display an alternative to the first function of the physical button 402 in the user interface 120. Enter 404. In the above example, the relationship between the first function and the substitute input is that the substitute input includes a letter as the first function, which indicates that the different combinations of the letter "a" are represented by the symbol to apply to the letter. The accent symbol of "a".

In another embodiment, a user can press and hold a button and have a tone symbol associated with the button being automatically loaded into one of the physical buttons. For example in the Spanish word "SE In IOR, the tilde symbol character "~" can be used with Combine. To load the deuterated symbol character, the user can press and continue to press "N" on the keyboard to load an N-derived set of accent symbols on the display device 110. A user can then select from the derived set, for example using a touch screen or other indicator control device. In this way, the confusion caused by the multi-function label on the keyboard can be improved, and these functions can be used by the user. Other embodiments of various embodiments may also be considered in detail, as will be discussed in FIG.

Example program

The following discussion will describe alternative input techniques that can be implemented using the systems and devices described above. Each aspect of the program can be implemented in hardware, firmware, software, or a combination of the foregoing. The program is represented as a set of blocks that detail the operations performed by one or more devices, and the order in which the operations are performed by the individual blocks is not limited. In the next discussion, reference will be made to the environment 100 of Fig. 1, the implementation 200 of Fig. 2, the implementation 300 of Fig. 3, and the implementation 400 of Fig. 4.

Figure 5 depicts an embodiment 500 of an embodiment that outputs a user interface to display alternate inputs. An input is received by one of a plurality of physical buttons of a mobile communication device (block 502).

In response to receiving, a user interface is output on the display device of the mobile device having a touch screen function (block 504). The user interface includes a plurality of punctuation buttons, and each of the punctuation buttons can be selected through the touch screen function to cause input of a respective punctuation symbol of the plurality of punctuation marks. At least one button is displayed in the user interface, and can be selected through the touch screen function to cause a plurality of emoji buttons to be output on the user interface. Each of the emoji buttons can be selected to cause input of a respective emoji in the plurality of emojis. The emoji as described above can be set to express emotions, such as emulating facial expressions.

Figure 6 depicts an embodiment 600 of an embodiment that outputs an alternate input in a user interface to correspond to a letter of a physical letter button. A physical button on a keyboard on a mobile communication device has been selected as a determination (block 602). For example, the physical button 402 "a" of Figure 4 can be set to provide a primary input of the letter "a" and is thus referred to as a physical letter button.

If the physical letter button is not selected within a specified time, then one of the letters corresponding to the physical letter button is input (block 604), as in the previous example, the letter "a" is applied to the physical button 402.

If the physical letter button is selected within a specified time, displaying one of the letters in the mobile communication device instead of the input, the display of the substitute input can be selected to input the substitute input (block 606), for example The user interface 120 includes one or more cavity characters. Various other embodiments are also contemplated.

Embodiment device

FIG. 7 illustrates various components of an embodiment apparatus 700 that can be implemented in various embodiments as any type of mobile device to implement an embodiment of a mobile communication device, feature, and system. For example, device 700 can be implemented as any of the mobile communication devices 102 described in Figures 1-4, respectively. The device 700 can also be implemented to access a web-based service, such as a content service.

Apparatus 700 includes an input 702 that can include Internet Protocol (IP) input, as well as other input devices, such as keyboard 112 of Figures 1-4. The device 700 further includes a communication interface 704 that can be implemented as any one or more wireless interfaces, any type of network interface, and any other type of communication interface. A network interface provides a connection between the device 700 and a communication network that can communicate with the device 700 by other electronic or computing devices. A wireless interface enables device 700 to act as a mobile device for wireless communication.

Apparatus 700 also includes one or more processors 706 (e.g., any microprocessor, controller, or similar equivalent) that processes various computer-executable instructions to control the operation of apparatus 700, and Other electronic devices communicate. The device 700 can be implemented as a computer readable medium 708, such as one or more memory components, and can include random access memory (RAM) and non-volatile memory (such as only memory (ROM), flash memory). Any one or more of body, EPROM, EEPROM, etc.).

The computer readable medium 708 provides a data storage space for storing content and data 710, as well as device applications and any other types of information and/or materials relating to the operation of the device 700. For example, an operating system 712 can be saved as a computer application in the computer readable medium 708 and executed on the processor 706. The device application can also include a communication management module 714 (which can be used to provide the functionality of the phone) and a media manager 716.

The device 700 also includes an audio and/or video output 718 that provides audio and/or video data to an audio presentation and/or display system 720. The audio presentation and/or display system 720 can be implemented as an integral component of the example device 700 and can include any components such as a processor, display, and/or different presentation audio, video, and video material. Device 700 can also be implemented to provide a user with tactile feedback such as vibration and touch.

The communication management module 714 can be further represented as including a keyboard module 722. The keyboard module 722 is a functional representation using one or more techniques, which have been described in Figures 1 through 6.

In general, the blocks may be represented as modules, and the modules are arranged to provide the functionality they represent. Further, any of the functions described herein can be implemented using a combination of software, firmware (e.g., fixed logic), manual processing, or a combination of the above-described methods. The terms "module", "functionality" and "logic" as used herein generally refer to software, firmware, hardware or a combination of software and firmware. In terms of software implementation, the module, functional or logical representation instructions perform a specific task on a computer system consisting of one or more computers having one or more processors (such as CPUs or CPUs) . The code can be stored in one or more physical computer readable memory devices. The alternate input technology feature to be described below is platform independent, i.e., the technology can be implemented on a variety of commercial computer platforms having a variety of processors.

Although the present invention has been described in terms of specific features and/or methodological steps, it is understood that the subject matter defined in the appended claims is not necessarily limited to the specific features or steps described. Rather, the specific features and steps described above are disclosed by way of example.

100. . . Example implementation

102. . . Mobile communication device

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106. . . Second outer casing

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120. . . user interface

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718. . . Audio and / or video output

720. . . Audio presentation and/or display system

1 is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of a mobile communication device in accordance with one or more embodiments of apparatus, features, and systems for mobile communications.

2 is a schematic diagram showing an embodiment of the user interface of the mobile communication device output of FIG. 1 being set to utilize the functionality of the display device to achieve an alternate function input.

Figure 3 is a schematic diagram showing an embodiment of an embodiment in which a user interface is provided to provide an alternate input of a plurality of emoticons and the user interface is output corresponding to the interaction of the user interface of Figure 2.

4 is a schematic diagram showing an embodiment of displaying an alternate input on a display device in response to selection of a physical button of one of the mobile communication devices of FIG. 1, relating to a first function of the physical button .

Figure 5 is a flow diagram depicting a program for outputting a user interface to display an alternate input in an embodiment implementation.

Figure 6 is a flow diagram depicting the process of outputting an alternate input in a user interface corresponding to a letter of a physical button in an embodiment implementation.

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram showing various components of an embodiment apparatus 700, which can be implemented in various embodiments as any type of mobile device to implement an embodiment of a mobile communication device, feature, and system.

100. . . Example implementation

102. . . Mobile communication device

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108. . . guide

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112. . . keyboard

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Claims (10)

A method for touch screen display, comprising the steps of: receiving an input caused by selecting a specific physical button of a plurality of physical buttons of a mobile communication device; and responding to the receiving step, having a touch The display device outputs a user interface on the display device of the control screen, the user interface has: a plurality of punctuation buttons displayed on the user interface, each of the plurality of punctuation buttons can pass through the user interface The touch screen function is selected to generate an input of a respective punctuation mark of the plurality of punctuation marks; and at least one of the keys displayed in the user interface, and can be selected through the touch screen function to cause the plurality of emoticon keys to be The output is on the user interface, and each of the plurality of emoticons can be selected to cause input of a separate emoticon of the plurality of emoticons. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of emoji buttons are configured as one of the plurality of punctuation buttons, and the sub-function table can be displayed in the user interface. The at least one button of the plurality of punctuation buttons is accessed. Such as the method described in claim 1, wherein each of the plural An emoji represents a separate facial expression in a plurality of facial expressions. The method of claim 1, wherein the punctuation marks are symbols other than letters or numbers used in the written language. A method for touch screen display, comprising the steps of: determining that a physical letter button of one of the keyboards of a mobile communication device has been selected; if the physical letter button is not selected within a specified time, inputting the corresponding entity One of the alphabetic keys; and if the physical alphabetic key is selected within a specified time, displaying one of the letters in the mobile communication device instead of the input, the display of the alternate input can be selected to generate the substitute input Input. The method of claim 5, wherein the substitute input is selectable by a touch screen function of the mobile communication device. The method of claim 5, wherein the keyboard follows a QWERTY arrangement. A mobile communication device comprising: a display device having a touch screen function; a keyboard having a plurality of physical letter buttons; and one or more modules, at least partially implemented in the hardware One And one or more modules, and the one or more modules are configured to perform operations, comprising: determining that one of the plurality of physical letter buttons of the keyboard of the mobile communication device has been selected; If the entity letter button is not selected within a specified time, the letter corresponding to one of the entity letter buttons is input; and if the selected entity letter button is selected within a specified time, the display is included on the mobile communication device. One of the letters replaces the input, and the display of the alternate input can be selected to produce an input to the alternate input. The mobile communication device of claim 8, wherein the substitute input is selectable by a touch screen function of the mobile communication device. The mobile communication device of claim 8, wherein the keyboard follows a QWERTY arrangement.