The now familiar 1-2-3 telephone keypad was the brainchild of John E Karlin, an industrial psychologist who had persuaded his bosses at Bell Laboratories that human testing could yield better ...

12-key Keypad (Numeric Keypad) A standard telephone keypad, with four rows of three keys each. The top row consists of 1, 2, and 3, with keys continuing down in order until the last row, which is ...

WHOSE IDEA WAS it to put the * and the # on the touch tone telephone? It might not be the most urgent issue of our time but it matters a lot to me because I grew up believing that the man ...

At North America's largest cell phone trade show, running this week in Las Vegas, there were few new phones for the U.S. market that had a numerical keypad instead of an alphabetic keyboard.

John E. Karlin, the original creator of all-digit dialing as we know it today, passed away at the age of 94, The New York Times reports. He is credited with designing the keypad we now use every ...

Get a close-up look at Easco, the world's first feature phone with a customisable keypad! Designed for accessibility, adaptability, and ease of use, Easco redefines what a feature phone can be.

Android phones have had the feature for years, and in iOS 18 beta, Apple has finally added T9 dialing support to the Phone App. So now you can type a contact's name using the number pad, and ...

‌iOS 18‌ also introduces new options for adding numbers to contacts directly from the Keypad. After entering a new number, tap the new button in the top-left corner of the Keypad screen.