Fig 1QWERTY phoneType on it · ↑ apart · ↓ togetherready
The screen: what you type, and the last three messages sentThirty-five sculpted keys between five frets, each with its legend and its Alt-layer glyph; each goes down with a click as it is typedSeven assemblies: back cover, battery, mainboard, chassis, key mat, keys, glassA candy-bar phone with a physical QWERTY keyboard, 140 by 230 units on a bench plate. Four rows of sculpted keys sit between metal frets under a row of four navigation keys with a trackpad in the middle, below a square screen. Type into the field or straight onto the figure: each key goes down with a click as its character lands in the compose field; digits and punctuation ride the Alt key the way they do on a real one, so 1 presses Alt then W. Return sends the line as a bubble and blinks the notification LED. It faces you while it is together, the way you would hold it to type. Take it apart and the camera swings round to an isometric view as it lifts into seven assemblies from the top down, each on its own spring: the glass and keys first, then the key mat with its thirty-five domes, the chassis, the mainboard and the battery; hover a piece to read what it is, and putting it together swings the camera back to the front as the pieces come home. Escape clears the thread.