FIO Technology Inc.
FIO-KeyBO 10-key QWERTY text entry method
Provides a solution for client companies with creative ideas and innovation including FIO- KeyBO.
FIO-KeyBO Increase Usability...

> Achieves a 10-key QWERTY keyboard within the standard cellular phone width.

> Keeps Number keys as big as a cellular phone's.

> Even though the characters look crowded, actual valid key width for each letter is wider than current smartphone.
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Simplify and reduce cost...

> Reduce the number of switches beneath the keyboard by 1/3.

> Simplify the mechanical structure compare with slide style QWERTY phones and smart phones.

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Expand functionality...

> Compare with the Blackberry style QWERTY keyboard, FIO-KeyBO allocates 1 extra symbol in each line. With a shift combination, 6 extra symbols are assigned, enabling a full QWERTY keyboard.

> Enables sliding finger control with mechanical click feeling without expensive touch panel such as iphone.

> Increase usability of user interface such as game application with 6x4 key switch solution. 

Japanese video...

This video shows how the 50-year-old FIO-KeyBO creator broke a world record set by a 18-year-old boy.

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"The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Sherrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human."

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FIO-KeyBO can reduce the number of key presses less than half by the comparison with a multi-tap text entry method.

 

 

 

This video explains about;

What is a FIO-KeyBO?

How FIO-KeyBO works?

Why we need a FIO-

KeyBO instead of a multi-tap text entry method?

FIO-KeyBO featured Product proposal.

Who we are.