[JR A]

but I'll take BB10 any way I can, as soon as I can...


I'll end up with both most likely.

Anyone else planning on getting both?

[Bold_until_Hybrid_Comes]

Im finally switching to the touch screen. Unless i change my mind again.

[Toodeurep]

Im finally switching to the touch screen. Unless i change my mind again.

You took the words right out of my mouth.

[ichat]

Touchscreen ftw

The way the thing looks in bb10 is awesome and also, my torch touchscreen has assured me one thing, I will not be leaving the touchscreen.

That is, if I will not be held at gunpoint

I may reiterate my point then.

Sent from my Nintendo NES

[Switch13]

Qwerty or die. We've done user tests with other devices - all touch screen. Our users were frustrated and extremely slow, even after a week of testing multiple devices none of them felt they could match the speed of typing qwerty keyboard. Maybe our staff is too old for touch? I often find myself touching the keys at thought while composing. You just can't do that on touch, and floating thumbs in air aimlessly is just silly - what am i going to do with two floating thumbs while thinking about what next to type - thumb wrestle?

[eve6er69]

The trick to fast typing on any device is practice. Give a blackberry person an iPhone and they will stink at it. Give them a few months at it and they will be just as fast on the iPhone as they were on the blackberry.

I have an iPhone that work gives me and my personal 9900 an I am about even on typing speeds on both just because I use both as forms of communication.

As for the op I will have to say I am def interested in the full touch. I have always stuck with the qwerty berrys because the old legacy is was keyboard friendly. I feel that bb10 has built itself around the touchscreen aspect so the touch experience may be more fluid and faster than having a keyboard.

[BoldPreza]

I am going back to the QWERTY. While I am pretty good at typing on my touchscreen there are too many things I just get frustrated with. Typing in the cold? It doesn't read my fingers(my fingers get really cold). I have to be paying attention to my keyboard now as opposed to being able to type without looking like before. Accuracy! Lack of tactile feel. Plus I just miss my old clicky feeling keyboard though I don't miss the pain in my thumbs I used to get.

Plus when I want to see a big screen I have my PlayBook so I don't really need the big screen on my phone.

[anthonybaker]

at first i was like "ok gotta stick with QWERTY thats wat BB is all about" then i was thinking "the future is touch and BB10 looks so perfect for touch, plus it will be out first " so i said im getting both, when the render of the n-series was leaked in that promo video i was like "meh, i will just get the touch" and now with talk of the dev c and the keyboard i got excited again about qwerty ........long story short I WILL BUY BOTH lol

[Tre Lawrence]

The fastest texters in the world use touchscreens, FWIW.

Having said that, choice is good, and it is great RIM is providing multiple options.

[bitek]

I've decided to wait for BB10 with keyboard. if it comes out same day as full touch screen i will get it otherwise i will wait for it. I am too attached to physical keyboard. typing on screen is not comfortable in the long run.

[mmcpher]

I have always been a qwerty guy and don't expect to find a better keyboard than on my 9900. But the BB10, swipe-up predictive text thing is intriguing enough to draw me to the touch model. I also like the size of the BB10 Touch compared to the BB10 qwerty model. I will miss the touchpad. Does anyone know if this swipe-up predictive text thing will be incorporated into the qwerty version?

[Toodeurep]

The fastest texters in the world use touchscreens, FWIW.

Having said that, choice is good, and it is great RIM is providing multiple options.

I like the word "choice". Don't have to use it if you don't want to but is nice to have. That is why I love my 9810 and I am still holding out for some form of a slider.

Don't want to get to off track but I think the first part of your post is what most touchscreen only people have really missed out on not having a physical keyboard. The keypad is more than just a place to type, it is a place to operate the device.

[Tre Lawrence]

I like the word "choice". Don't have to use it if you don't want to but is nice to have. That is why I love my 9810 and I am still holding out for some form of a slider.

Don't want to get to off track but I think the first part of your post is what most touchscreen only people have really missed out on not having a physical keyboard. The keypad is more than just a place to type, it is a place to operate the device.

I wouldn't disagree. I won't ever dispute the efficacy of RIM's keyboard. It's more than just an input device.

[Blacklatino]

but I'll take BB10 any way I can, as soon as I can...


I'll end up with both most likely.

Anyone else planning on getting both?

Probably. I've purchased the majority of my smartphones on eBay. I still want the Slider....unless the Touch feels good.

Sent from my BlackBerry 9810 using Tapatalk on Mecca's Hybrid

[bdguru]

Having my PB makes me sometimes think about a touch version but at the end of the day my gut tells me QWERTY. BB makes the best keyboard in the world

[Bold_until_Hybrid_Comes]

Im finally switching to the touch screen. Unless i change my mind again.

Now I'm back on qwerty sure enough. If they do indeed come out the same day it may ultimately come down to going to the store, waiting out front until it opens, going in, looking at both, then, even after months of coming on here multiple times a day and debating actually *deciding on the spot*. Unless I change my mind back to touch screen.

[416to604]

both both both... unless they come out on the same day... then its QWERTY QWERTY QWERTY

[southlander]

The fastest texters in the world use touchscreens, FWIW.

Having said that, choice is good, and it is great RIM is providing multiple options.

True and yet one can be faster with touch and simply find it an unsatisfying typing experience. Like me.

Sent from my BlackBerry 9930 using Tapatalk

[Plazmic Flame]

I think I my speed is the same on both a touchscreen or BlackBerry QWERTY but there are definitely more errors for me on a touchscreen. So, back to QWERTY I go!

[ichat]

I am going back to the QWERTY. While I am pretty good at typing on my touchscreen there are too many things I just get frustrated with. Typing in the cold? It doesn't read my fingers(my fingers get really cold). I have to be paying attention to my keyboard now as opposed to being able to type without looking like before. Accuracy! Lack of tactile feel. Plus I just miss my old clicky feeling keyboard though I don't miss the pain in my thumbs I used to get.

Plus when I want to see a big screen I have my PlayBook so I don't really need the big screen on my phone.

I am forced to agree with typing in the cold. Really annoying

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[southlander]

I am forced to agree with typing in the cold. Really annoying

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I really agree with the typing without looking aspect. I am always running about at work typing out notes to myself on the go. With my Bold I just do this effortlessly. With a touchscreen I always have to stop and look at the screen.

Sent from my BlackBerry 9930 using Tapatalk

[kill_9]

Qwerty or die. We've done user tests with other devices - all touch screen. Our users were frustrated and extremely slow, even after a week of testing multiple devices none of them felt they could match the speed of typing qwerty keyboard. Maybe our staff is too old for touch? I often find myself touching the keys at thought while composing. You just can't do that on touch, and floating thumbs in air aimlessly is just silly - what am i going to do with two floating thumbs while thinking about what next to type - thumb wrestle?

Suck your thumb while rubbing a blanket? ROFLMAO Thumb wrestling indeed.

[eve6er69]

If the qwerty had a trackpad I would be 100% for it but your going to have to try to click things on 1/2 the screen realestate.

No trackpad puts a wrench in my spokes.

[JR A]

If the qwerty had a trackpad I would be 100% for it but your going to have to try to click things on 1/2 the screen realestate.

No trackpad puts a wrench in my spokes.

That's what I first thought.


Then I remember I used this for months and months with no problem:

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I've written paragraph after paragraph posts on CB and surfed different web pages, even won a few eBay auctions using it...

Even with a 2.8" screen with less pixels per inch than a paper written in braille, even the smallest font links were easy to click.

The new QWERTY BB10 is PLENTY of touch screen...

[Taigatrommel]

True and yet one can be faster with touch and simply find it an unsatisfying typing experience. Like me.

Sent from my BlackBerry 9930 using Tapatalk

Same here. I wouldn't say I type faster on a physical keyboard, nor would I say I type slower on a virtual keyboard. First of course it depends on the keyboard itself (layout, size), then on the system itself.

However, no virtual keyboard can beat the real estate when typing on a physical QWERTZ. Mashing those real buttons gives me tactile feedback, the clicking noises, my fingers can actually feel the keys - not just a flat surface which actually doesn't give any feedback. For me, this is the most important thing when writing a text. Even for my desktop computer I like to have a decent mechanical keyboard, I'm always kind of annoyed when I have to use a "typical" rubber-dome keyboard on some other computer. When it is a pleasure to work with your tool (no matter whether this would be a keyboard, a camera or whatever else), the actual workflow is much, much better for me. An experience no touchscreen input can replace (yet).