Typing text using a cell phone forces someone to work on nine tiny keys that could represent any of three letters at any time. By comparison, a full-sized keyboard has about four dozen keys, most ...

The teen-ager from suburban Denver discovered the feature recently, and now uses her cell phone keypad to punch in and send quick messages to her best friend and parents -- no talking required.

The VX8100 is fitted with a flip lid housing a color display. The lower half of the phone features a directional pad for moving around the screen, along with a standard cell phone keypad.