The physical keyboard of the BlackBerry KEYone is its defining feature and one of its biggest selling points. But, if you live in a part of the world that doesn’t use the QWERTY keyboard layout ...

English keyboards typically feature the QWERTY layout, named for how the first six letters are arranged. In France and a handful of other French-speaking European nations, the AZERTY layout is ...

Changing the Keyboard to Azerty. When you type a document in a language such as French, Belgian or Lithuanian, you may find yourself limited by the standard QWERTY keyboard, which lacks many of ...

Open your iPad's Settings app. On the left-side menu, choose General to display the general-purpose device settings on the right side of the screen. Scroll down the right side of the screen until you ...

Regardless of your physical keyboard of choice, the BlackBerry KEYone will set you back €599 if you’re buying it directly from the European division of the Canadian firm.

Unlike the QWERTY keyboards on most devices in the US and Europe, French-language keyboards follow an AZERTY layout, and they’ve never been standardized.

To solve this problem, Sholes and his colleagues invented the QWERTY keyboard. The purpose of this design was to create such a setting of the keys that the typing speed may be a little slow, but ...

When I first encountered a French AZERTY keyboard as an ex-pat, I thought "this isn't so bad." The letter layout is similar to QWERTY, so I reckoned that typing in français would be a snap.

For English speakers, the first attempt to use a French computer keyboard is often a rude shock. Unlike in the UK or US, keyboards in France are based on the "AZERTY" system, a subtly but (to ...

Similarly, AZERTY keyboards rarely allow easy or obvious access to the symbols that French writing uses for quotation marks (« ») forcing writers to use the English quotations we’re familiar with.