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Posted on September 11th, 2009 by Barry Collins

Windows Mobile’s FNG keyboard!

“Is it just me, or does the new keyboard icon in the new WM6.5 [Windows Mobile 6.5] builds look like an abbreviated ‘F***ing Keyboard’?” asks Twitter user @atpcz.

Windows Mobile 6.5

He’s got a point.

(Thanks to Jon Honeyball for the tip-off)

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3 Responses to “ Windows Mobile’s FNG keyboard! ”

  1. Steve Cassidy Says:
    September 12th, 2009 at 10:44 am

    I’m sure they mean “FiNGer KeyBoard”. Which begs the question – what other kinds of keyboard did they want to distinguish themselves from? if that was meant to be a snapshot starting at “F” it would read “FGHVB”…

     
  2. stardada Says:
    September 14th, 2009 at 2:58 pm

    The first part FNG could stands for, what the GI’s in Vietnam coined as ‘F***ing New Guy’. So FNG KB, ‘New arrival to the Theatre of Operations that is WM 6.5, eager willing and about to soil his pants, when he attempts to enter text on this booby trapped, fox holed, 7.62 spitting, rice eating’ KeyBoard. If ever there was a warning from history, then stay away from WM 6.5, burn your draft card and try a Clockworked Apple or a Kubarked Android instead.

     
  3. Aunty Dan Says:
    September 15th, 2009 at 12:58 am

    Heh. Years ago I was working for a video game development company in the USA. They were finishing up a Star Trek licensed game and, as is the custom, were asked to throw a training level in at the last minute. Whereas the rest of the game content had been tightly controlled up until then, this last-minute addition seemed to be open to a little artistic license, so the team decided to put their names in almost undecipherable lettering in the technical-looking labels on the walls and consoles. Being game geeks however they didn’t use their actual names but the handles they used when playing Unreal and Quake on the LAN. The head programmer, an english ex-pat like me, went by the handle “F’n Brit”. Much to his chagrin a sharp-eyed QA person spotted this before the game shipped. However another English programmer at the same company managed to get the California DMV to approve the vanity license plate “B0LLCKS” for his car!

     

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