Nokia Users More Like QWERTY Keyboard

Although the smart phone market (smartphones) is currently dominated by a touch screen, but most of Nokia mobile phone users prefer a physical keyboard. They prefer a keyboard with QWERTY layout to operate, interact, and typing on the phone. This is evidenced by the survey related to Nokia the most preferred input method users.

Data published in the official Nokia Conversations blog on August 10 that showed 48.64 percent of respondents prefer a physical QWERTY keyboard, followed by a touch-screen input method selected by 34.69 per cent of respondents.

With the numeric keypad input method is becoming obsolete Nokia users. Only 8.91 percent of respondents who chose a numeric keypad. While choosing the voice command feature is only 7.75 percent.

The results of a survey on the preferred input method user Nokia - Published in the official Nokia Conversations blog August 10, 2012

According to Nokia, European countries like Germany, Britain, Sweden, and Finland tend to prefer the keyboard input method QWERTY layout.

It is also common in the Philippines, known as a developing country with the fastest growing mobile market in Asia.

ComScore research institute recently conducted a similar survey noted, there are 40 percent of Filipino respondents who prefer the touch screen, 33 percent for the QWERTY keyboard, voice commands 12.5 percent, and 6.94 percent of the numeric keypad.

This is in contrast to users in the United States who prefer the touch screen, according to ComScore survey. There is a 47.22 per cent of respondents who chose the touch screen, QWERTY keyboard 33.33 percent, 12.5 percent for voice commands, and 6.94 percent of the numeric keypad.