I’m getting frustrated with mobile these days. I am really tired of the popular formats of phones and nothing is really changing. I know touchscreen only handsets are popular but I’m personally bored to bits of seeing them everywhere. Everyone and their mother has a touchscreen phone and I see them struggling all the time.
I personally just don’t like the format. I’m a big fan of the Nokia E71 or Blackberry format of phones. Screen and QWERTY keyboard is what I like. Problem is I haven’t seen any new inovation in that form factor since the Palm Pixi was released. Nokia has the new E72, Blackberry has the 9700 and all their other new models but where are the rest of them? Hello HTC??? I really enjoy my Android Nexus One but would like it more with a physical keyboard.
I’ve been using phones with a QWERTY keyboard since I got a Nokia 9500 many many years ago. I have used other formats since then but always go back to the physical kb. So where’s the innovation?
I’m hoping we’ll see an amazing Android phone with a full QWERTY keyboard this year but my expectations are diminishing. I’ve been told Android isn’t really geared to a physical keyboard. WELL ADAPT, please.
HTC are you listening? I think you have the most potential to do this. I don’t mind having a smaller screen just to be 100% clear. It’s fine with me. I need a bi directional communications device and non QWERTY devices are just for receiving information and not responding to it. Not creating, not writing email, sms, Twitter, etc.
What do you all think? Are we going to see a Blackberry style device with Android? Do you even want that?
I thought I would need a physical keyboard and held off buying a smartphone for a long time because of it.
I now use an iphone 3gs and the virtual keyboard doesn’t bother me much. I use it all the time for email etc.
Posted by Shimon | May 30, 2010, 2:47 amI just got an HTC Hero (I know the new one just came out but it was a $100 more!). Anyways, This is the first time using a screen only keyboard. While I am getting used to it and my speed and accuracy are getting better, I do also long for a seperate, “real” qwerty keyboard as well. So I feel your pain dude.
Posted by Mike Webb | June 11, 2010, 12:12 pmI thought I would need a physical keyboard and held off buying a smartphone for a long time because of it.
I now use an iphone 3gs and the virtual keyboard doesn’t bother me much. I use it all the time for email etc.
Posted by Alexandria | June 23, 2010, 6:47 amI hate touch screens!!! I have had enough of them. Even at the pay terminals for services are touch screens and most of the time I have to press a button 5 times for the stupid processor to understand I indeed pressed where I did. Mobile phones are just awful! Thanks to the iphone, which is a horrible phone, everyone jumped on their boat. Now they are doing same thing to notebook/netbook area because of the ipad they are dusting off the already tried and failed tablets. Sure the people who can’t type worth a darn will love them because it is new and cool, but those people like the latest pop star like Lady Gaga. The tech industry is churning out trash now. Turning utility into flashy useless trash. Try touch typing on this crap.
Posted by Artyom | February 24, 2011, 10:57 pm