Any phone with a physical keyboard is just going to be another looser to the iphone.
Who says? and why? I find chicklet keyboards much easier to type on (and I can type 45 words per minute on my iPhone, so don't give me that "you're just not used to it crap")
Why is is so hard to understand that those stupid chiclet keyboards for handheld devices are a dead end? Apple got it absolutely right with the all touch screen approach.
BuuuuuuullSh**
Who says they're a dead end? If that were true they wouldn't be so popular in phones like the sidekick, Voyager and blackberry. Apple did not get it right, the corrective text is horrible, especially since it refused to learn words, like F***, *sh**, yo, other slang words...
The only possible improvement would be addition of handwriting recognition, which should be nothing more than a software upgrade.
What? handwriting tech has been around forever and isn't really in any devices anymore... hand writing tech is dead
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The only thing that a physical keyboard adds is unwanted thickness and more opportunities for something to break. Apple is exactly right that getting rid of the keyboard to keep the phone thin enough to comfortably fit in ones pockets is the right choice.
Man, you looooove Steve Jobs don't you? "Apple is exactly right"
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Since when is a physical keyboard "unnecessary?"
Having an on-screen touch keyboard instead of a slide out also makes the device much more practical to use for short, casual tasks, which is the whole point of a handheld device.
No it doesn't. It makes it more complicated. If it were practical anyone could figure it out. I hand my iPhone to someone who has little experience with it and they have no idea how to use it. I have to give a ten minute tutorial before they can type their name.
Sure, the iPhone is great for typing, "Sure, LOL. I would love to see a movie tonight! I have nothing to do other than look trendy"
Where with any other smart phone you can do more than social networking.
On top of that, all the extra mechanical parts are really just more things to have break.
I'll give you that, but with the iPhone, if the touch screen dies (just one piece of the over all phone) you need to get a whole new phone. Where with any phone with a keyboard if one piece dies you're only losing that one piece and you can put off phone repairs for a while. Where with the iPhone you're screwed until you can get a whole new phone.
Given that my first smartphone is an iphone, I have to call nonsense on anybody who thinks a chiclet keyboard is easier to use than Apple's virtual keyboard.
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA soo.... you're making all of these assertions based on nearly
ZERO experience with other phones? Niiiiiiice!
They aren't. I find them harder to use. It's just that all the Crackberry addicts are accustomed to chiclet keys and too set in their ways to understand the superiority of the virtual keyboard.
hmmmm... let's have a typing challenge between you and a power crackberry user. Who can type faster? Ahhhh right there a good blackberry user can type faster on their phone than an iPhone user.
Finally, it's not just that I don't want a chiclet keyboard myself, I don't want anybody else to have them either. Where I work, there are countless people in countless meetings clattering away on their stupid little keyboards on company provided Crackberries. The faint but constant 'click-click-click' is very irritating and distracting. The iphone with it's totally silent operation has been a breath of fresh air.
BS! The rubbery tiny keys on smart phones are silent and provide a little physical feedback with each press. The iphone on the other hand has that stupid speacker that insists on making very loud pop noises, usually a ten at a time two seconds after you're done typing
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All these junk smartphones like the Crackberry, the G-1, and now the Pre make as much sense as hanging onto a teletype terminal in the age of GUI's.
hahaha! Yeah, because Apple got it perfect and juuuuuust right. We really need a slow laggy keyboard over a physical one. I'd say that using a physical keyboard is more like typing on... well... a keyboard on a home computer vs. using some clunky slow handwriting tablet hooked up to your PC.
On a different note, will somebody please explain all the crying about AT&T? I don't see how there is enough difference between any of the cell providers for consumers to care about at all.
Because Verizon has more coverage and better service. The very tech around CMDA has better "cell breathing" than GSM, and scales better too.
AT&T has crap coverage where I live and every time I try and use my iPhone at my house (I live in an very populated Portland suburb, definitely not the middle of no where) I am reminded of how bad AT&T is, where when I had verizon I never dropped a call.
I had been a Verizon customer since they were GTE, but when the iphone came out I switched to AT&T without hesitation. I have no regrets. They cost the same or less than I would pay for the closest equivalent from Verizon, they are polite to deal with, they don't have a bunch of stupid hidden charges like Verizon did for some of the smartphone models I looked at, and their coverage is just fine. I live and work far out in the suburbs of a secondary urban market and often travel to a wide variety of semi-remote and remote locations. I rarely ever have trouble getting either a phone or data signal, except when I am inside some metal lined rooms in the interior of some buildings. I can understand loyalty to a particular brand of phone, but I just don't get all the loyalty or hostility towards certain signal provider brands. I can think of few things that are more fully commoditized than cell phone service. The only thing I can figure is that all the AT&T haters are really just trolls who work for Verizon, Sprint, T-mobile, etc. who are worried about their jobs due to all the customers AT&T is poaching because of the iphone.😕
Gah! You have no idea what you're talking about! Why did I even take the time to respond!?
