Making your Android smart phones smarter

KALQ keyboard for smarter mobile phones

Make your Android smartphones smarter. Android smartphones have made your life easy. These made you tech savvy. However, typing in these Android smartphones is not an easy job. Most of the mobile devices use the same older QWERTY keyboards. These keyboards were developed a century ago for the old typewriters. Modern desktop and laptop computer devices used the same Qwerty keyboard with little modifications. However, it was going well to date.

It was changed with tablets, phablets and smaller versions of mobile phones using the internet. Typing with fingers became an old fashion. It is easier to type with both thumbs in these smartphones. Here comes the new keyboard application KALQ. Vardhaman Infotech, Jaipur has developed a new KALQ keyboard app and launched it on April 30, 2013, through Google play store for free download.

KALQ is a split keyboard divided into two parts making easier for thumb-based typing. It is faster and smarter. You need to practice for a few hours to get set on this new keyboard. Researches of St. Andrews university show that one can achieve 85% higher speed in typing in this new keyboard. Normal typing speed in mobile devices in older QWERTY keyboard is twenty words per minute whereas it is thirty-seven in new KALQ keyboard.

Column by N Raghuraman, The Dainik Bhaskar

Famous website CNET has provided a download link from their website. Several newspapers in European Union reported this technological innovation. N Raghuraman, Management guru has written a complete story about the making of Darshan Kothari, head of the developer team; Vardhaman Infotech, Jaipur; and the KALQ keyboard. The story has been published in all editions of Dainik Bhaskar, largest Hindi daily, on May 13, 2013.

Update

Update May 2019

Both Darshan Kothari CEO and Vardhaman Infotech has crossed a long way since the blog published. We are still developing mobile apps, however, with better technologies, frameworks, and tools. Now, we are focusing on on-demand mobile apps like TaskRabbit, augmented reality apps, etc. Large numbers of overseas clients rely on us along with several satisfied indigenous customers.

Apps like TaskRabbit has brought revolution in the everyday life of many Americans. The US citizens are now accustomed to it. TaskRabbit This type of mobile apps are also spreading in the European Union and many other countries. Even India is not an exclusion. Wanna know about on-demand apps like TaskRabbit?

We have seen how augmented reality app like Pokemon made people crazy. It creates a virtual 3D world around you.

KALQ keyboard first time launched by Indians

KALQ keyboard launched

KALQ keyboard, a smarter and faster thumb-based typing keyboard is launched by Indians! Congratulations!! Vardhaman Infotech has launched an Android mobile application - the world's first KALQ keyboard.

Large numbers of people downloaded the application worldwide and it is spreading. The present keyboard app works on Android tabs and large phones only. Darshan Kothari of Vardhaman Infotech informed that his team is working to make it compatible with other Android phones. They believe it to bring a newer version very soon.

KALQ Research

Researchers in University. of St. Andrews developed a new keyboard that works better than present QWERTY keyboards in smartphones. Darshan Kothari and his team at Vardhaman Infotech, Jaipur, India quickly developed an Android application for smartphones and launched it free in the Google play store on April 30, 2013. They developed it only five days after the research paper published. MPI-INF (Max Planck Institute for Informatics), Montana Tech, a renowned organization has yet to launch the application (though announced much earlier)!! 

However, few researchers did not take it with sportsman spirit. One of the team members Myroslav Bachynskyi posted a warning at the Google play store that this is not official! How ridiculous!!! It is officially launched by Vardhaman Infotech. Of course, it is not an official release of MPI-INF (Max Planck Institute for Informatics), Montana Tech and nowhere in the app, it is claimed to be of the institute. 

Instead of appreciating the effort taken by an Indian in developing the app at such a fast speed, they have started condemning it. 

News in European Newspapers about KALQ Keyboard

However, some European newspapers published the news with due importance. See two pieces of news. 

Typing on a tablet or large smartphone is faster if your keyboard is specially adapted for control with your thumbs, new research shows. For that reason, Vardhaman Infotech decided to make an Android app with a KALQ keyboard. (English translation) 
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QWERTY gives way to KALQ on mobile devices

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Een e-mail schrijven op een tabletcomputer of een smartphone loopt niet voor iedereen van een leien dakje. Het gevoelsmatige scherm en de positie van de letters zorgt voor heel wat schrijffouten. Dat blijkt uit nieuw onderzoek. Om dat te verhelpen komt het Indische technologiebedrijf Vardhaman Infotech met een Android-applicatie op de proppen die geen gebruik maakt van het traditionele QWERTY-toetsenbord maar wel van het nieuwe KALQ-toetsenbord. 

QWERTY legt de duimen voor KALQ voor mobiele apparaten