Definitions
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- noun A
keyboard that can be operated using only thethumbs .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Gone are the up / down switches on the front of the wheel (Hooray!), replaced by a kind of thumbpad thingy augmented by perfectly-placed "paddle-compatibles" on the rear.
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Like the battery life, not impressed by the screen, thumbpad implementation, or time to boot XP.
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Aside from snapping one or two pix up close, I do the moblogging/thumbpad typing waaaaaay in the back of venue.
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Run and Gun Just push the Dual Strike joystick's thumbpad in the direction you want to go: forward and backward, or to sidestep left and right.
Cyberscope 2008
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It's a delightful way of breaking outside well-worn control techniques -- buttons, thumbpad, keyboard.
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It's a delightful way of breaking outside well-worn control techniques -- buttons, thumbpad, keyboard.
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The keyboard is a drawback because the on-screen thumbpad works beautifully.
Nokia’s Latest Pocket Computer (the N810) as Mobile Platform Erick Schonfeld 2005
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The mazes feel small-a necessary consequence of rendering a vertically oriented game on a horizontally oriented screen-but they are exactly the same as veteran players rememeber, and the 3DS thumbpad does a surprisingly good job of emulating the analogue feel of a classic joystick.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Chad Sapieha 2011
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A rubber thumbpad adds grip to the rear of the camera, and the Function (Fn) button is handy for quick settings changes.
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A rubber thumbpad adds grip to the rear of the camera, and the Function (Fn) button is handy for quick settings changes.
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