Would You Keyboard Lovers Ever Be Willing to Ditch the Hardware for a Software-Only QWERTY?
The hardware keyboard has all but gone the way of the dodo bird. We all know that. The good news is that there are still some phones out there with hardware keyboards. The bad news is, that phone is never 100% right for you. (And, really, no phone is.) It seems that only mid-range phones are being equipped with keyboards these days, though. OEMs and carriers likely do this to attract the texters, but there’s still a market for business professionals who miss their Blackberries.
A good amount of our vocal fanbase love the high-end phones, though, and the last two monumental high-end releases with physical keyboards have been the Samsung Epic 4G and the Motorola DROID 2. Others, such as the G2, Desire Z and all variants based on them, have already been phased out or are quickly headed that way. The high-end devices have clearly become outnumbered when it comes to this spec.
At this rate, it won’t be long before keyboards are as hard to find as a high-end Android with stock Gingerbread, something only Sprint and T-Mobile can provide with the Nexus S. Say they become impossible to find: could you live with that? Would you be able to use your screen as your sole typing device or would you be willing to get a less powerful device or switch to another operating system for a nice phone that has a hardware keyboard? Vote in the poll below, and as always, be sure to voice your thoughts in the comments area below.
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