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5-Row QWERTY Keyboard adds fifth row with numbers to the jailbroken iPhone’s keyboard

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By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, February 26th, 2009 at 4:23 AM

5-Row QWERTY Keyboard for iPhone

If you’re like me, you’re probably annoyed with Apple’s idea that you need to press a separate key on the on-screen keyboard to get to numbers. No more, thanks to the new application simply called “5-Row QWERTY Keyboard.” Yap, it works just like it sounds, adding a fifth row with numbers on top of the rest of the QWERTY keyboard!

You may think that as a result, other keys get smaller, hence impossible to use. Wrong! Take a look at the image above – the application simply condenses other keys, leaving just enough room for numbers. Best of all, when you press the “Shift” key, numbers change to their symbol equivalent!

The way I see it, this is easy – you want this! If you have a jailbroken iPhone, simply search for “5-Row QWERTY Keyboard” in Cydia, and take it from there. Otherwise, if you needed a reason to go the “jailbreak way,” now you got it, right?

[Via: Gizmodo]

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Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.