• The 9 sensor multi-tap Thumb Keyboard uses a centrally located sensor surrounded by 8 adjacent sensors or eight touch sensor zones, for producing alphabetic characters, a space, numbers, punctuation and symbols using the left or right thumb.
• The 9 sensor Thumb Keyboard can be used on a cell phone menu key, a digital camera menu key, an iPod / MP3 menu key, on a BlackBerry trackball, or on the G1 Android pointing device, making it the world’s smallest data entry keyboard.
• The 9 sensor multi-tap Thumb Keyboard allows a user to text message without ever looking at the input device.
• Activating one of nine sensors:
  1 time produces a 1^st data character,
  2 times produces a 2^nd data character,
  3 times produces a 3^rd data character,
  4 times produces a 4^th data character,
  5 times produces a 5^th data character,
  6 times produces a 6^th data character,
  7 times produces a 7^th data character,
  8 times or more produces additional data characters.
• The 9 sensor multi-tap Thumb Keyboard is faster and more efficient than Tegic's T9 multi-tap method, Motorola's iTAP multi-tap method and ZI Corp's eZiText multi-tap method.
• Many solutions to improve existing problems have been made, but many are not well suited for the blind community, the deaf-blind community and an individual needing to enter data into a device without looking at the keyboard entry device.
• Combining the 9 sensor multi-tap Thumb Keyboard with the PhoneKeyboard.com invention, produces the world's fastest data entry device for 12 key phones.

Activating the [1] key on the thumb keyboard, activating the menu key in a North-West direction or moving the cursor control trackball in a North-West direction:
1 time produces the “Space”
2 times produces the letter “Q”
3 times produces the letter “Z”
4 times produces the number “1”
5 times produces the question mark “?”
6 times produces the ampersand “&”
7 times produces the quote “ " ”

Activating the [2] key on the thumb keyboard, activating the menu key in a North direction or moving the cursor control trackball in a North direction:
1 time produces the letter “A”
2 times produces the letter “B”
3 times produces the letter “C”
4 times produces the number “2”
5 times produces the comma “,”
6 times produces the at sign “@”
7 times produces the apostrophe “ ' ”

Activating the [3] key on the thumb keyboard, activating the menu key in a North-East direction or moving the cursor control trackball in a North-East direction:
1 time produces the letter “D”
2 times produces the letter “E”
3 times produces the letter “F”
4 times produces the number “3”
5 times produces the exclamation mark “!”
6 times produces the dollar sign “$”
7 times produces the equals sign “=”

Activating the [4] key on the thumb keyboard, activating the menu key in a West direction or moving the cursor control trackball in a West direction:
1 time produces the letter “G”
2 times produces the letter “H”
3 times produces the letter “I”
4 times produces the number “4”
5 times produces the hyphen/dash/minus sign“-”
6 times produces the backslash “\”
7 times produces the asterisk “*”

Activating the [5] key on the thumb keyboard, pressing the menu key downward or pressing the cursor control trackball downward:
1 time produces the letter “J”
2 times produces the letter “K”
3 times produces the letter “L”
4 times produces the number “5”
5 times produces the semicolon “;”
6 times produces the underscore “_”
7 times produces the percent sign “%”

Activating the [6] key on the thumb keyboard, activating the menu key in a East direction or moving the cursor control trackball in a East direction:
1 time produces the letter “M”
2 times produces the letter “N”
3 times produces the letter “O”
4 times produces the number “6”
5 times produces the number “0”
6 times produces the forward slash “/”
7 times produces the plus sign “+”

Activating the [7] key on the thumb keyboard, activating the menu key in a South-West direction or moving the cursor control trackball in a South-West direction:
1 time produces the letter “P”
2 times produces the letter “R”
3 times produces the letter “S”
4 times produces the number “7”
5 times produces the period “.”
6 times produces the left parenthesis “(”
7 times produces the less than sign “<”

Activating the [8] key on the thumb keyboard, activating the menu key in a South direction or moving the cursor control trackball in a South direction:
1 time produces the letter “T”
2 times produces the letter “U”
3 times produces the letter “V”
4 times produces the number “8”
5 times produces the colon “:”
6 times produces the vertical line “|”
7 times produces the tilde “~”

Activating the [9] key on the thumb keyboard, activating the menu key in a South-East direction or moving the cursor control trackball in a South-East direction:
1 time produces the letter “W”
2 times produces the letter “X”
3 times produces the letter “Y”
4 times produces the number “9”
5 times produces the pound/number sign “#”
6 times produces the right parenthesis “)”
7 times produces the greater than sign “>”