Goodbye, numeric cell phone keypads. You’re going the way of the rotary dial. Touchscreens and QWERTY keyboards will take over from here, thank you. At North America’s largest cell phone trade show, held last week in Las Vegas, there were few new phones for the U.S. market that had a numerical keypad instead of an alphabetic keyboard. Touchscreens also were out in force. These changes are a recognition of the popularity of text messaging and wireless Internet use.
