keyboard or no-keyboard?

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Lha Bho

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We are looking at economically priced WiFi GSM cellular phones (low end). Good part of our activities will be in email.

Can you please tell us what you like or your beef on phones with and without keyboard?

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My htc G1 has a keyboard but once I got used to the onscreen keyboard I never use the qwerty. I must say I am not much of a phone emailer/texter. I guess it depends on your options and what how much you text. Some phone keyboards are better than others. I would try out whatever you are going to buy for a while. Since you got to live with whatever you get (for a while anyway).

I would add thought that if I were to write long emails I probably would slide the qwerty out though. Hope this helps.
 
My last phone was a LG Rumour-- poor quality phone but I loved the slide-out keyboard and had no trouble texting with it.
My replacement is a Samsung Impact with a virtual keyboard. I really dislike the keyboard as I find I am always hitting the wrong key. I have average size hands for an adult male. My wife doesn't find the virtual keyboard to be an issue-- I will likely pass the phone on to her (she's using my old repaired LG Rumour).
 
It really, truly depends on which phone you get.

I really appreciate the virtual keyboard on the iPhone. It requires learning like any virtual keyboard, but the screen is very accurate and the layout is comfortable. I type faster on an iPhone than on any physical keyboard.

Many other phones don't necessarily have te same advantages. Most Android phones do well, but there are a lot of phones with resistive (pressure-based) touchscreen that are nasty to use if they don't have hardware keyboards.

Before you rush out and get anything, wait to see what Apple announces on Monday afternoon. Even if you don't want a brand new iPhone, it's expected that the iPhone 3GS will drop to $99. That's a very good deal for this class of phone.
 
are you talking about the 4G iPhone? Its been in the news all over silicon valley for weeks. According to the picture, the keyboard & screen look very similar to current iPhone model.
 
In my experience, the lack of physical motion can help more than it hinders.

When you're typing on a physical keyboard, you have to push down before you can move on to the next key. Not so on a virtual keyboard. Once you're trained to use both thumbs on the iPhone's keyboard -- and it does take a couple of weeks to truly get used to it -- you can move faster simply because you're not waiting for feedback.

Also, auto-correction is your friend (if occasionally your enemy). It's quite the advantage to know you can finish the last few letters of a word just by hitting the spacebar.
 
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