Smart phones with a keyboard

polomints

I wouldn't mind except my Sony Xperia Mini Pro phone has broken, and I would pay to upgrade early, but there just isn't a phone I want. It would appear that none of the phone shops stoke phones with a keyboard anymore apart from Blackberrys, which is weird, because rather than having a slider they have a tiny screen and and even smaller keyboard, so I really don't understand how they're still popular.
I'm I the only one who just doesn't get why phones with keyboards are so unpopular, I quite genuinely don't understand why they're so unpopular that none of the phone shops will even stock one. :huh: :mad: I'm sorry I've been using touch screens on my phones for nearly 4 years, but I find keyboards with tactile response are much faster to type with.

Anybody know where I can get a smart phone with a keyboard.

Johnmcl7

Unfortunately hardware keyboards have fallen victim to the fashion of thinner and lighter phones, I don't think there's any mainstream phones with a decent spec that offer them now. The Sony Experia Mini Pro I think was the last one produced by Sony, HTC who once produced some of the best phone keyboards no longer do and nor do Nokia. Motorola produced decent keyboard sliders up to the Droid 4, there is a rumoured Droid 5 but nothing confirmed and it would be likely to be sold outside the US (the Droid 2 was the on in the series released in the UK as the Milestone 2).

I agree with you about the keyboards, I find the narrow design Blackberry and Nokia use to be fairly useless and I miss having a proper keyboard slider. However a couple of years ago when my Nokia N900 was needing replaced I had to give up the physical keyboard frustratingly.

John

paddyrg

Last decent keyboard I had was on a HTC Desire Z, lovely phone, last of its breed.

I switched to Galaxy note 2, and use a slidey finger onscreen keyboard as opposed to a tapping one, it's actually quite fast once you get the flow if it, but I imagine it would be quite hard on a small screen

Kernel_Sanders

I also agree. RIP the MDA Vario, on which you could easily skip back through text instead of having to try and slide some silly digital cursor without accidentally selecting some text.