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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Mark Tyson

Crazy Google Japan keyboard design switches keys for dials — the Gboard Dial Edition shows why the software team isn't allowed to design hardware

Google Gboard Dial Edition .

Google Japan’s Gboard team has designed and open-sourced a revolutionary new keyboard that boldly eschews keys in favor of dials. The so-called Gboard Dial Edition (machine translation) was devised as a novel and intuitive physical keyboard design, influenced by the seminal and decades-trusted rotary telephone input method.

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