Originally Posted by
deadcowboy The irony is that while the keyboard appears minimalist, the actual Passport typing screen is a nightmare, employing both a physical keyboard and a morphing, multi-page virtual keyboard. Screen items constantly being pushed up and down when the virtual keyboard appears, or when bouncing between pages of the expanded virtual keyboard. Not to mention the awkwardness of having to break your typing flow to add a simple bit of punctuation from the expanded virtual keyboard.
I loved the Passport, and I used it for many months. But the typing experience is inefficient and anything but minimalistiC. BB's Classic/classic 4-row keyboard is efficient and minimalist in that it takes fewer keys to map so many keystroke options.
I'm loving my Classic, and I loved my Q10 before that. Being able to type whole paragraphs without even looking at the screen feels amazing. But I do crave something more modern, and the Passport could have been there if only it had one extra vertical row with modifier keys.
See, the Passport doesn't even necessarily need a 4th row, but it absolutely does need modifier keys. This could be easily accomplished by adding an extra vertical row. It's not as if the Passport is wanting for horizontal real estate.
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