Techniques for recognizing a series of touches with varying intensity or angle of descending on a touch panel interface

A non-volatile computer readable medium encoded with computer executable instructions, which when accessed, cause a machine to perform operations comprising:

• receiving user input with a touch panel interface;
• recognizing a series of touches with varying intensity or angle of descending on the touch panel interface;
• and
• performing an action associated with the series of touches with varying intensity or angle of descending on the touch panel interface.

A handheld device, comprising:

• a screen;
• a touch subsystem including a touch panel incorporated into said screen for receiving user input in the form of a series of touches with varying intensity or angle of descending on the touch panel interface;
• and
• a processing unit to recognize the user input in the form of a series of touches with varying intensity or angle of descending on the touch panel interface and perform an action associated with the movement of one or more touches across a location on a keyboard grid on the touch panel interface.