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hey guys this is steven skarlatos of come this is part three of the video review of the son I 760 today we're going to take a look at the typing with the keyboard and using the stylus now let's take a look at the qwerty keyboard so we flip the device over and bring the keyboard out I don't know if how well you can see it with this much light but there's actually a backlight under the keys and a very nice feature is that you can set the backlight on off by schedule so if you only want it at night it will only turn on during the times the schedule is set or in conjunction with the screen timer the numeric keypad is very handy when you want to type in numbers you don't have to use the function key to activate the numbers on the qwerty keyboard there is also as you can see no arrow keys on the qwerty keyboard you actually use the d-pad for that which actually I find works quite well there are three dedicated keys on the keyboard a key that brings up the messaging application the start menu and the ok there's also a symbol feature which actually brings up a symbol chart on the screen and then you select the symbol you want with the numeric keypad so i'll show you how that works if i bring up the mail application and let's say i'm going to create a new message and we'll go down here to the text area of the message and I'll hit function symbol you can see there are grids that show up and the grids associate the symbols to a number on the numeric keypad they're actually 22 grid so let's say I want a forward slash it would be the number one I press one and then hit spacebar and that goes away this is a very nice feature all in all I'm very impressed with the key layout of this device one of the strengths of the i760 is really the one handed operation you can dial easily with the numeric keys you've got the access to the d-pad with your thumb you also have the soft function keys and you also have a clear here and the Start menu can be accessed from the side one key that I don't like the placement of is the ok button which is right next to the end call button I just find that it's too low for my thumb to reach down and I use the ok button next quite a bit the camera button on the bottom is sucked out of the way and I like that so you don't accidentally turn the camera on the stylus on the side is actually a very nice location it's easy to pull out you don't have to flip the device to get the stylus out either at the top or the bottom and it retracts easily so it's a good fit I know that it won't fall out and with your nails it's actually quite easy to pull out it's a it's a very sturdy design so that's it for the use of the keyboard and the stylus and I'll be back with part 4 in the included software next week