TECHNOLOGY

Goodbye, nemeric cell phone key-pads. You're going the way of the rotary dial. Tuch screens on OWERTY keyboards will take over from heare, thank you. At North America's largest cell phone trade show, running this week in Las Vagas, there were few new phones for the United States Market that had a nomerica key-pad insted of the alphabetic keyboard. Tuch screens also were out in force.


These changes are recognition of popularity of text messaging, and wireless internet use.


CTIA wireless, which host the show, said " The U.S. subscribers sent 1 trillon text messages last year, three times the 2007 volume. The same 2.2 trillion people increased min. by 5% in voice calls."