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msmobiles.com_robot · Joined: 23 Mar 2004 Posts: 16777215

It is the first Windows Mobile smartphone without touch-screen made by HTC for a long time. It goes on sale next month (September 2008) in Europe. While rest of the world thinks that the best QWERTY keyboard is the ...

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TcT · Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 2

Maybe you should not so much impose your personal taste when announcing phones. There are people who very much like slide out keyboards (I do) as they don't steel any space on the front of your device as long as you don't use them. And in most cases they are much more two hand friendly. And seriously your "obsession" with 3.5 mm stereo plug. HTC phones use the same ExtUSB connection since a few generations and if you desperatly want a headset without a microphone get one of these really cheap and small ExtUSB to 3.5 mm plug adapters.

Instead of your limited view you should thank HTC for making a variety of phones. Something for different tastes/preferences. With the android phone they will even give you the chance of choosing your OS.

highway · Joined: 04 Jul 2006 Posts: 5

I don't agree and I think most of the rest of the world. A qwerty keyboard on the front like palm is just not convenient. You have tiny buttons and that makes it very hard and very slow to type. The device gets bigger or you must have a smaller screen.

So i prefer smaller devices with slide out qwerty. Very fast typing, smaller device with big screens. They are thicker but I can live with that.

indiekiduk · Joined: 03 Dec 2004 Posts: 198 Location: Glasgow, Scotland

I prefer the front qwerty like the s620/s630 and the landscape screen. Perhaps we will see a s640 soon with a GPS like this one has?
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kanzlr · Joined: 01 Aug 2008 Posts: 89

well after using a few slide out devices as well as qwerty bars, I found to prefere the latter. the reason simply is that most of the time i use the device, i need the keyboard too. and if it is just to use menus or search lists.

of course it limits screen size, but there is a always a trade off to be made.

i had an 9502 with VGA screen and slide out keyboard. and while it was a great device, the i780 is just that much more usable.

BrianC · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 12:17 pm Post subject:

The above comments simply confirms that fact that everyone has different preference. Hence it is great to see many different form factors available on WM phones. One size doesn't fit all.
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Stoic33 · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 96

An interesting take from Akihabaranews.com >>