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If, like me, you handed over a bit too much money to Apple for an iPhone 5 in a fit of ‘ooh, new and shiny thing’ stupification, you may have noticed a little bug with the keyboard. And, like me, you may have been worrying that it means your phone will have to be replaced. Well, worry not. Read more

With Microsoft’s Surface tablet (and a flood of third party Windows 8 devices) just around the corner, it’s time to accessorise. With that in mind, Microsoft has just unleashed two official peripherals to help people maximise their time on the new platform – the Wedge keyboard and mouse. Question is: are they any good? Read more

As I type this, I’m looking down (because I still can’t really touch type) at a keyboard covered in what can only be described as ‘coffee muck’. At least I think it’s coffee. Either way, cleaning it is a pretty annoying job, since water and electronics aren’t friends.

If only there was a keyboard that didn’t mind a good scrubbing… Read more

Microsoft has just unveiled two new accessories that it hopes customers will want to tether to its upcoming Surface Windows 8 tablets to help make the machines more productive. Thing is, with such a focus on traditional computing, is Steve Ballmer’s Microsoft missing the point of what a tablet is built to do? Read more

Swype has rightly been on the receiving end of a lot of praise and attention in its time. The gesture-based keyboard replacement app has always provided eye-wateringly fast typing, but now a new version seems to have just floored the competition by adding a couple of killer features…

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For a while now, we’ve been wondering if Apple has plans on merging its MacBook line with the iPad. The only downside of Apple’s tablet is that typing at length a bit of a chore, so a converged solution – akin to the Asus Transformer Prime – makes sense, right? Wrong. It’s not going to happen as long as CEO Tim Cook’s in charge… Read more

Not content with going gesture-crazy and turning mouse scrolling upside down in Mac OS X Lion, Apple has been pondering ways of tossing the traditional keyboard in the dustbin. A new Apple patent application has surfaced revealing Cupertino’s take on an entirely flat, touch-sensitive keyboard that come to future MacBooks.

We’ve already seen similar touchscreen keyboards on real world products including the Acer Iconia 6102 and the Toshiba Libretto W100 but Apple’s design takes the concept a little bit further…

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The best Android keyboards apps? That’s right: if you’re an iPhone user, BlackBerry addict or Windows Phone 7 fan, you may not know that Android lets you change what keyboard you use to type with. Don’t like the one your Sony Ericsson comes with? Go get another.

It’s a tremendously useful option to have, but with so many different keyboards available on the Android Market, it can be hard to know which to pick. That’s where we come in: we’ve tested every single one to find out which is best, whichever Android phone you use, and whatever your WPM count is. Read on for our verdict.

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