Patent ID: 7356361

Claim:
A hand-held computing device structured to include a telephone component comprising: a case having a front face, the case having within a plane a long axis and a short axis; a display screen located on the front face; a speaker located along a top portion of the front face above the display screen; a microphone below the display screen; and a non-foldable keyboard located on the front face below the display screen comprising three rows of keys oriented perpendicular to the long axis of the case, at least nine keys comprising a primary symbol and a secondary symbol, the primary symbols for successive keys in the first row of keys representing the letters â€œQâ€, â€œWâ€, â€œEâ€, â€œRâ€, â€œTâ€, and â€œYâ€, the at least nine keys having secondary symbols â€œ1â€ to â€œ9â€ comprising a touch-tone telephone keypad arrangement of keys, the secondary symbols â€œ1â€, â€œ2â€, and â€œ3â€ in the first of the three rows of keys, the secondary symbols â€œ4â€, â€œ5â€, and â€œ6â€ in a second of the three rows of keys, and the secondary symbols â€œ7â€, â€œ8â€, and â€œ9â€ in a third of the three rows of keys, each secondary symbol associated with a key including a primary symbol, and comprising an option key configured to set the non-foldable keyboard in one of a plurality of states, a first state corresponding to a single use of a secondary symbol in the touch-tone telephone keypad arrangement, a second state corresponding to consecutive use of any secondary symbols in the touch-tone telephone keypad arrangement, and a third state corresponding to use of only primary symbols in the touch-tone telephone keypad arrangement, wherein the keys in the touch-tone telephone keypad arrangement have a common visual characteristic, at least one key not in the telephone keypad arrangement lacks the common visual characteristic of the keys in the telephone keypad arrangement, and wherein in response to execution of the telephone component, the non-foldable keyboard is set to the second state for use of the secondary symbols of the keys in the telephone keypad arrangement.