Quote Originally Posted by jut703 View Post
I used to have an E71, as well as a BB 8520, and finally an HTC Chacha. Like you guys, I thought it was more convenient to have a physical keyboard especially when you text a lot.

However, it's quite difficult to text with a QWERTY keyboard while driving since you'll need to use 2 hands. Also, the keys wear out over time which makes them difficult to type with. Plus, the screens are unbearably small if you try to browse the internet with them. The landscape orientation also makes them incompatible with a lot of apps. If you opt for those slide-up QWERTYs, you get a very thick phone. Lastly, these QWERTYs aren't prioritized by phone manufacturers so they tend to have much slower specs.

I thought that shifting to a touchscreen phone will cause a big setback in terms of typing speed/accuracy, but found that this wasn't the case, at least not with the iPhone. With the Android smartphones I tried before (S3, Xperia V, etc), it just wasn't as responsive so I made quite a lot of errors. But with the iPhone it was much easier so I stuck with it.

So overall there's not much of a drawback vs a QWERTY phone in terms of typing speed, but you get a bigger screen, better camera, faster response, more apps, and so on. Well worth it in terms of overall experience.




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yep that's why i do all the heavy lifting w/ my Nexus7 2013. SMS, IM, emails i do on the Droid4. kinda like the dumb-phone + PDA combo back in the day.

onscreen keyboards are fast, but aren't accurate so i'm sticking w/ Droid4 for now. i got a spare so if this one breaks i still have another one LOL. yeah the specs are crap in 2014: android 4.2, 1GB ram, 4" screen but the occasional web browsing is still tolerable. and i really love the GPS (and GLONASS!!!) sensitivity on this thing