IMPROVED INPUT FOR KEYBOARDS IN DEVICES

摘要

A method, apparatus, user interface and computer program product for detecting a character input of at least one word input string to a device. If the device is in an alphabetic character input mode, presenting a corresponding alphabetic character on a display of the device. If the device is not in an alphabetic character input mode, determining a type of the character input. If the type of character input is a numeric character, presenting the numeric character on a display of the device. If the type of the character input is an alphabetic character, presenting the alphabetic character on the display of the device and changing a state of the device to the alphabetic character input mode. Any prior character inputs of the at least one word input string are converted into corresponding alphabetic characters.