Comments on: QWERTY Vs. Touchscreen Form Factor

By: Antonia@Popular Touch Phones

Antonia@Popular Touch Phones — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 05:38:59 +0000

I was bought Nokia N9 couple of weeks ago.I am really like this touches phone because the screen of this phone is almost 4″ and the picture quality is higher than other touches phone.I don’t like to use external keyboard because I don’t comfortable with this.I just feeling comfortable with my phone’s keyboard.

By: dolor de cabeza y ojos

dolor de cabeza y ojos — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 01:37:25 +0000

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By: Roshan Kumar

Roshan Kumar — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:58:56 +0000

Dear Jolla Team,
There are countless phones with touchscreen and high end windows or android or similar os form nokia, blackberry, lg. . . infact from every single consumer manufacturer.

When it comes to touch phones with slider qwerty keypad, there are none with good hardware sparing motorola droid4 and photon 4q which are for limited markets like US. I cant get them here and change the sim to use here. . :(

I live in India and I want to buy a phone with decent hardware and slide out qwerty keyboard. I was searching for almost 6 months now and couldn’t find a decent one. . for touch screen. . there are many form samsung, lg, htc, etc. . . but with qwerty keyboard, there are none with quad core or dual core processor with decent graphics and good camera.

I feel really helpless when it comes to upgarading my mobile phone and feel like my interest is curbed by mobile manufacturers. I personally don’t prefer touch screen phones and am still stuck with my old nokia 6030i which has proper keyboard.

Please make a proper landscape slider keyboard like nokia n9 or e7 or motorola photon q or droid 4 with amazing harware that will put samsung and lg to shame. . Please dont disappoint me by making YATSM (Yet another Touch Screen Mobile),
If that were the case, I will have to wait for few more years to make my own phone. . i just cant help it. .

Please consider my request and make a proper qwerty slider keyboard mobile like droid or photon q or nokia n9 or n9500 or e7 or some thing similar. The difference in thickness is hardly noticeable. It is always better to have a phone which is slightly thicker and more ergonomic than have a delicate phone like a glass pane and need to be held by two fingers that will give pain in the joints. .

Hope you will not disappoint me. .

Looking very eagerly for jolla launch. .

Regards,
Roshan

By: markkyboy

markkyboy — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:35:44 +0000

Hi Guys, I bought the N9 to be a bit different from my crowd, lovers of iphone and samsung galaxy series.
I had an N8 before the N9, so I got used to touchscreen quite quickly, especially with the N8’s 4×3 alphanumeric keypad which included T9 support, but this feature is not present in N9, it’s all about qwerty, which I do not like or want to get on with. QWERTY is for your pc not for ‘sausage fingers’ that own smartphones!
Hopefully, Jolla have implemented a 4×3 alphanumeric keypad into Sailfish, if not, my N9 goes back on ebay from wence it came!
Regards :-)

By: Orbecho

Orbecho — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:23:50 +0000

el nokia N950 iba a ser una de mis proximas adquisiciones, me parecia perfecto!, si Jolla lo vuelve a lanzar , no dudaria en comprarlo. por mi trabajo necesito, mandar muchos emails y el messenger, por lo que el N950 era ideal. si se le incorpora el cuerpo de policarbonato, estaría todavia mejor. por no encontrar un equipo que tenga un buen teclado, debo seguir usando mi blackberry 9900,
pero siendo realista , como en el mercado los equipos android e ios , predominan , y nadie quiere un equipo que no le permita interactuar con otras marcas, es indispensable que el sistema operativo tenga compatibilidad con Whatsapp, caso contrario pasaria el mismo dolor de cabeza de los propietarios de N9 que deben instalar aplicaciones beta.

N950 !!! te esperamos con emoción !!!!

By: Vladimir

Vladimir — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:49:09 +0000

Keyboard that can be detached is the best solution. It could be sold separately and that means designing only one model that consists of two parts. Keyboard could contain secondary battery thus prolonging operating time of the unit.Instant money saver for Jolla and customer that like qwerty would be setisfied.

By: Martin Ebnöther (@Venty)

Martin Ebnöther (@Venty) — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:42:23 +0000

My mom (age 66) currently uses an LG KS360 mobile phone. It is a mere featurephone but it has a slide out keyboard. Recently she asked me, if there are newer phones with keyboards as the battery is showing its age now. When I told here that there are only touchscreens today, she could not understand why. Plus, she has Polyarthritis, so using a real keyboard is much easier for her.

If Jolla releases a phone with a hardware keyboard, I will preorder two pieces. One for me, one for my mom. And if it will be the developer edition, I don’t care but I will have the cooles mom around. =:o)

By: Mohamed

Mohamed — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:13:16 +0000

I want keyboard too in the N950 style: it’s very practical and will make my phone unique compared to all these bar phones out there.

PS 1: a little bit of shiny colors will be good too, I am tired of all these black and white models. Maybe interchangeable casings will do the trick. Like when Nokia started it all with 3310.

PS 2: I like Jean-Christian’s idea.

By: Jean-Christian de Rivaz

Jean-Christian de Rivaz — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:17:23 +0000

After having used the N770, the N800, the N810, the N900, the N9 and the Nexus S, I must say that the main feature of a separate keyboard is to leave a usable working space to the application. With a separate keyboard you can really edit document, use a terminal or chat in a efficient and natural way. But a touchscreen have some inherent advantage like easy localization ans customization. If something new need to be done, I propose to analyse the opportunity to add a “hybrid” keyboard: a separate touchscreen.

Imagine a keyboard that get out the same way of the N950 or Lauta, but instead of physical keys it entirely consist of a touchscreen with a physical surface that feel like there are keys on it. The screen could be a cheap monochrome one. The feedback could be done by the screen (inversion of the key button), a vibration or a sound.

This will bring back the main advantage of a keyboard: leave space for the application on the main screen. It don’t take some disadvantages of a real keyboard like difficult localization, impossible customization and mechanical fatigue. A touchscreen keyboard will probably be experimented someday on a smartphone. Who will make it a first ?

By: houpsa

houpsa — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:37:43 +0000

oops sorry, please delete a post. and last last thing, phone need space on harddisk.