Patent ID: 9285836
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A portable electronic device comprising: a body having a front face; a touch-sensitive display exposed at the front face of the body; a mechanical keyboard at the front face, the mechanical keyboard having mechanical keys arranged in exactly three rows, a total number of the mechanical keys equalling twenty nine and each of the mechanical keys being associated with only one of: a single keyboard function and a single character and each of the mechanical keys having printed thereon a representation of only one of: a single keyboard function and a single character, the single character being one of a first plurality of characters that excludes numerical characters, punctuation marks, symbols, and emoticons and the single keyboard function being one of a plurality of keyboard functions; a memory; and a processor coupled to the touch-sensitive display, the keyboard, and the memory to execute a program stored in the memory to cause the portable electronic device to: wherein the mechanical keys of the mechanical keyboard include touch sensors to detect touches on the mechanical keys such that the mechanical keys are depressible to provide input to the processor and are touch-sensitive to provide further input to the processor.