Texting using an ordinary cell phone keypad isn't hard but does take some practice, since each numerical key is shared by three or four letters. To let the phone know which letter you want ...

With new phones coming out daily ... they are highlighted in a "dual illumination technique that lights the keypad area from beneath and above," according to the luxury phone maker's site.

But Gutowitz, a cryptographer and chaos mathematician, thinks he's cracked his biggest code yet -- making it easier to type text and Web addresses using a cell phone keypad. If his company takes ...

cell phones. I'd also like to congratulate Samsung for making a cell phone keypad that is easy to lock. As many owners of "candy bar"-shaped cell phones know, if you don’t lock your keypad ...

In this example collected from the Snopes inbox in February 2007: THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW YOUR CELL PHONE COULD DO ... 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked. Try it out.

When flip phones and landlines were popular, most folks could dial a number without even looking at the keypad. As smooth-screened smartphones took the place of a classic dial pad, though ...